Logan, the chief architect behind our API framework, has been playing with graphviz lately to make pretty pictures out of our codebase and help find areas for improvement. You’d be surprised at how much a map of your object relationships can help make your structure more efficient. These pictures looked so cool that I asked him for a diagram of our API’s object relationships.

The picture below represents how each API data type relates to each other. The ones with the most lines connecting them to outher types are SoftLayer_Account and SoftLayer_Hardware. Go figure. : ) Here’s an SVG version of the image or click on the image below for a higher resolution version for your viewing pleasure. It looks most impressive when printed out and taped to your cubicle wall. Enjoy! See y’all next time.