The Terrastruct Blog

Follow along with updates and improvements made to D2, D2 Studio, TALA, as well as helpful engineering guides.

Diagram layout engines: Minimizing hierarchical edge crossings

A deep dive into how a layout engine handles hierarchical diagram structures.

January 26, 2023

Generate diagrams programmatically

This article demonstrates how to generate diagrams programmatically with D2.

January 11, 2023

How to draw beautiful software architecture diagrams (part 1)

Part 1 of a series of articles on simple steps to follow to achieve functional beauty for your software architecture diagrams.

September 22, 2022

Web3's Ultimate Sources of Truth

An introduction to Oracles, the unnoticed power source behind the extreme growth of web3 applications in the past couple of years.

November 28, 2021

Introducing Github Sync

Terrastruct’s Github Sync lets you automatically sync diagrams to a Github repository. Every hour, if there are changes to your diagram, a push is made by our bot. See how it works and why we think you'll love it.

February 1, 2021

Practical intermediate database tips

This guide is for people who know a little about how databases and SQL work, and are venturing into setting up a database and writing SQL for production for the first time.

August 14, 2020

Functional testing with your database in Go

This blog post describes a successful end-to-end testing setup that took some iterating to get to, and it's one I wish existed when I started with a Go API backend.

May 6, 2020

What frontend engineers should know about backend

A short list of topics that a frontend engineer should know about the backend.

March 2, 2020

10 tips for using diagrams to ace the system design interview

An expert who's interviewed hundreds of candidates at top companies shares their tips on how to use diagrams effectively during a system architecture design interview.

February 13, 2020