Archi-Flow Brings Real-Time Traffic Simulation to Cloud Architecture Diagrams

Archi-Flow, a new platform launched on Product Hunt, addresses a long-standing gap in cloud architecture visualization by adding live traffic simulation to static architecture diagrams. Traditional tools like Visio and Miro provide static documentation, but fail to show how data actually moves through systems under operational load. Archi-Flow transforms these diagrams into interactive, dynamic representations that reflect real-time network behavior.

The platform supports two approaches to traffic visualization: ingesting live telemetry directly from cloud provider APIs and observability tools like Datadog, or allowing teams to define synthetic traffic patterns manually. This flexibility enables both production monitoring and pre-deployment system design reviews, onboarding scenarios, and failure modeling. By bridging the gap between static architecture documentation and operational dashboards, Archi-Flow helps engineering teams maintain a single source of truth for system design rather than juggling separate architecture docs and monitoring tools.

Collaboration and communication features are central to the platform. Users can generate shareable links to architecture diagrams with live traffic simulations, allowing non-technical stakeholders and team members without direct platform access to view systems in action. The platform also supports SVG and PDF exports for presentations and documentation, as well as JSON import/export for integrating architectures into broader engineering workflows. These capabilities address a common challenge in engineering organizations: explaining complex backend flows and system architecture to diverse audiences, from new engineers during onboarding to stakeholders during incident reviews.