What is Multiplayer
Multiplayer Overview
Multiplayer is a collaborative platform for system design, auto-documentation and debugging. We aim to improve how engineering teams design, develop, and manage distributed systems.
Use Cases
Multiplayer is for you if:
- You work on complex distributed systems
- You manage a distributed engineering team
- You are frustrated by these pain points:
- Lack of Immediate Architecture Insight. Your team would like more information about how components interconnect and what their dependencies are. At best, this gap leads to misalignment, prolonged onboarding, and challenges in security assessments. At worst, it results in system failures, downtime, security vulnerabilities, integration problems, scalability issues, and more.
- High Maintenance Effort. Your team invests considerable effort in keeping architecture diagrams and documentation in sync with the actual systems. And even then, architectural drift remains a problem.
- Alignment Challenges. Your team struggles to achieve consensus on system design before jumping into code. This lack of collaboration and planning affects other stakeholders as well (Developers, Architects, QA, DevOps, PMs, etc.) and causes errors, unnecessary rework, issues with implementation, and the accumulation of Architectural Technical Debt due to overlooked system impacts.
- Fragmented documentation. Your team has to comb through multiple sources of knowledge (Jira, GitHub, Confluence, Slack, Notion, Google Docs, their coworker’s brains, etc.) to cobble together a complete picture of historical architectural decisions.
Features
Multiplayer is packed with features designed to tackle the complexities of system design and architecture documentation head-on.
- Architecture Visualizations: Know how all the pieces in your system fit together. From the high level, logical architecture, down to the individual components, with their metadata, integrations, and dependencies. These are much more than mere diagrams: you have full version control features including diffs and changes, version history, design branches, system design reviews, contextual views, etc.
- System Auto-Documentation: Use OpenTelemetry to discover, track, and auto-document your system architecture. Immediately detect drift in your components, dependencies and APIs. Never waste time manually creating or updating your documentation again.
- Platform Debugger: Record and share deep session replays that include relevant data from frontend screens to deep platform traces, metrics and logs. Debug platform issues in minutes instead of wasting hours digging through APM data.
- Centralized System Information: Pull all your assets and documentation into a single, secure location, removing all knowledge silos, and reducing context switching. Create a 360° view of your system information - including architecture diagrams, system requirements and design decisions, sketches, APIs, repositories, environments, and more.
Roadmap
Here are some of the features on our roadmap. If you’re interested in a particular feature send us a note - this will help us prioritize what you need the most!
- AI assistant for system design
- API design & management
- Diagram customizations (grouping, zoom in/out, etc.)
- Network & sequence diagrams
- Export your platform, including all your metadata, into a GIT repo
- Integrate with Jira and Confluence, to embed your diagrams and deep session replays
- Self hosting