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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.

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Use Cases


Multiplayer is for you if:

  1. You work on complex distributed systems
  2. You manage a distributed engineering team
  3. 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.

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