Comment by andersonklando
3 days ago
We do at my team. I do not work on the Backend side, but I help in designing the DB schema.
Whenever I am thinking of new features to be developed, or when engineers are suggesting some features/approaches, looking at the ERD helps a ton. Onboarding is also easier.
We were using Lucidchart[1] until we reached the limit[2], so we found dbdiagram.io (which is just not the same).
[1] So far, it was the best of the market in terms of "canvas freedom" [2] We are struggling with salaries, so we are saving everywhere
how many tables? is it manageable and interesting like trying to squeeze 2b records into postgres or what?
Also lucidchart is just draw.io fyi - you don't need a license unless you need the file sharing aspect and I feel like it belongs closer to the code.
I'm just generally curious what others' process is for this as the only meetings I've had in the last 5 years were who was getting cut.
If I recall, Lucidchart allows up to 15 "shapes.
> Also, Lucidchart is just draw.io fyi - you don't need a license unless you need the file sharing aspect, and I feel like it belongs closer to the code.
No, it is not. I took the whole day to check what is available in the market, and concluded that Lucidchart UX is quite balanced.
well, they used to be - I just went and saw they sprinkled llms into it so yeah, now it's different. Diagrams.net aka Draw.io was what they were using...