@nicbarkeragain I still find myself sketching data flow diagrams when designing data processing oriented systems, but I agree that it often doesn't translate well to concrete interfaces in code, it misses any problems you might have with push/pull impedance mismatches, who "holds" memory etc.

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• Author: jakub smolaga (@smolus)
• Posted: 2026-08-25 23:29:29

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I still find myself sketching data flow diagrams when designing data processing oriented systems, but I agree that it often doesn’t translate well to concrete interfaces in code, it misses any problems you might have with push/pull impedance mismatches, who “holds” memory etc.

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