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If your diagrams don’t update with your system, they’re not documentation. They’re fan fiction.

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Your QA team is testing in isolation. Your devs are shipping in a vacuum. What could possibly go wrong? 😑

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Fixing distributed systems with fragmented tools is like solving a jigsaw puzzle in the dark.

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Getting your existing architecture into Multiplayer is easy — upload a CSV or a diagram image, and your system architecture is ready to explore.

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🙌 No more dragging boxes and arrows. No more outdated diagrams.

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Monitoring tells you that its broken. @trymultiplayer.bsky.social shows you why.

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QA: [Explains bug for 10 minutes] Engineer: “Huh?” QA: [Sends one Platform Debugger link] Engineer: “Ohhh.” Moments like these remind me why we built Multiplayer—and why we use it ourselves.

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If your partner integrations still require multiple email chains and Zoom calls — you are not self-serve.

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Your docs should do more than sit in a wiki. Platform Notebooks are where documentation meets execution: ✅ Document integration steps ✅ Run and debug APIs inline ✅ Share working examples with your team or partners

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In this scenario AI would be a shiny new chimney. Looks impressive, adds "innovation points," and it’s installed right next to the hole. Doesn't fix the leak, but it recommends articles about roof repair. 🤣

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As a startup founder, how do you reply to: “I’m using [insert tool / in house solution] and I just got it working, I don’t want to switch to something else”?

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Most teams still don’t have a clear picture of all the APIs in their system—let alone where they live, how they respond, or how they’re connected. Multiplayer auto-documents it all. Live API detection, automatic documentation, and real-time insights—without any extra effort from your team.

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If you tell three people they’ll be having fish for dinner, they might picture entirely different meals—poached salmon, sushi, or fish fingers. Ask three engineers to design a “backend platform for the new app,” and you’ll get three architectures that vary in approach and detail. Alignment is key.

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I’ve heard some non-tech folks use “design-first API” and “API-first design” interchangeably—but they’re not quite the same. 👇

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Asked for agility. Got 83 microservices, 17 teams, and a # why-is-this-down Slack channel that pings at 2am. Turns out flexibility isn’t free.

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Spent my morning turning some of my favorite photos into Studio Ghibli-style illustrations with ChatGPT, and the dogs look absolutely magical! 🐾✨😍

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Just imagine being able to list all the APIs, code snippets, and instructions for your integrations in ONE place. Magic ✨

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If your system diagrams and docs need manual updates, they are already obsolete. The future of architecture documentation is real-time and self-updating.

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Adding just another “small backlog task” to your manual docs.

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⚙️ Poem about distributed software: Nodes whisper data streams, Vast networks weave shared dreams, Silent gears, unseen seams. #WorldPoetryDay

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Why we document software: there’s nothing worse than trying to find the 10 words of critical info in a 50-message Slack thread.

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You can’t debug what you don’t understand. Get real-time insights and stop playing hide-and-seek with your own system.

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Tired of arranging diagram boxes and arrows yet? There’s an easier way to visualize your architecture 👀👇

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The average organization uses 11+ observability tools across development, operations, and security teams. The name of the game for the CTO is “tool rationalization”.

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Which one are you?

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If you're at #Rejekts or #Kubecon and want to hear what we’ve been building at @trymultiplayer.bsky.social, let me know! I’ll connect you with my co-founder and our head of devrel & community who will be there from March 31st to April 3rd!

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Move fast and break things? Nah. Move smart and understand things. That’s how you actually ship faster.

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Dev: This is how we automate things when nobody has time to implement a real solution. Me: …but what if you just used a tool for that.

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When your entire debugging process feels like a patchwork of workarounds, it's a 🚩 sign—it’s time for a serious conversation about the tools you’re using.

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APIs power modern software, but working with them has always been… clunky. Teams juggle API clients, scattered documentation, and debugging tools—creating silos instead of smooth workflows. With Platform Notebooks, we’re bringing API design, testing, and debugging into one collaborative workspace.

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Whiteboarding the perfect system architecture vs. realizing you'll have to manually update it every time something changes

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The best tools are invisible: they don’t demand attention—they just work. Same when you don’t think about a great UX, but you do notice a missing error message or a clunky workflow.

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Focusing on SEO, SEM, and paid social helps—but it’s renting growth. To build a sustainable engine, prioritize owned and earned channels: virality, word of mouth, and user-generated content are key.

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When the documentation clearly explains how to do it, but you decide to ‘figure it out’ yourself.

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Engineering teams need to stop treating software diagrams like subway maps. A subway map can stay accurate for months (years?). A software diagram is outdated the moment a new PR gets merged.

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Understanding complex systems is becoming more and more vital as software grows increasingly distributed, dependencies multiply, and the cost of failure skyrockets.

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Ever stay up late, wrestling with some code? And you're wondering whose bright idea was this? And wishing, hoping, praying, there was some documentation, anything to help you decipher this digital mystery? This is your sign to write a bit of documentation today.

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Conversations we make possible: Eng 1: “Did you consider doing using XYZ pattern instead?” Eng 2: “Yup, here’s a link to the system design review and all the comments about the tradeoffs we considered.” Eng 1: “Cool, let me check that out too.”

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Consider this your routine reminder👇

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😆 Brainstorming new tag lines for our platform debugger. ‣ Debug with confidence, not guesswork. ‣ Ship fast. Debug faster. ‣ Turn your black box into an open book!

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Conversations we make possible: Eng 1: “How does this API even work?” Eng 2: “Here is a link to a notebook with the API client calls along with an explanation of how we built it and how you can run it” Eng 1: “Got it, that clears it up.”

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Modern software architecture trades simplicity for speed—leading to higher system complexity in exchange for faster, more reactive, more responsive applications. Is your team ready to reason and understand this greatly increased application complexity ?

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Once your team grows beyond 10-15 engineers, it's time to invest in well-thought-out system architecture docs. Tribal knowledge doesn’t scale and your team cohesion will erode as your system grows in complexity.

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