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Every company I've worked with has started with an ER diagram for their primary database (and insisted on it, in fact), only to give up when it became too compl
by nitwit005 9mo ago
Every company I've worked with has started with an ER diagram for their primary database (and insisted on it, in fact), only to give up when it became too complex. You quickly hit the point where no one can understand it.
You then eventually have that same pattern happen with services, where people give up on mapping the full thing out as well.
What I've done for my current team is to list the "downstream" services, what we use them for, who to contact, etc. It only goes one level deep, but it's something that someone can read quickly during an incident.
- kennethops 9mo agoSorry what is an ER diagram?
- gnabgib 9mo agoFirst hits on DDG, anonymous Google, Bing ERD/ Entity Relationship Diagram https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/er-diagrams https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/er-diagrams ERM / Entity-Relationship Model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93relationship_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93relationship_mo... (same-same, ERD is the more common acronym)
- kennethops 9mo agoThat is what I figured it would be, but you never know anymore with the amount of acronyms thrown around nowadays.