About Peter Melly

Engineer, Broadcaster, Newshound, and Corporate Media Consultant. Encompassing a wide and varied career in broadcast media, starting as an installation project engineer with the BBC, working with everything from RF engineering to coding. Then moving to a live news operational position in Newsgathering, BBC N Ireland, before transitioning into journalism. A career path that encompasses both pure engineering and broadcast journalism gives Peter the ability to write engaging articles about complex technical issues with simplicity, clarity, and elegance. Peter is now a content creator for draw.io.

Why do Cloud Architects 🧡 draw.io

This blog is part of our I 🧡 draw.io series, where developers worldwide tell us why they love draw.io. Follow us on social media to learn how others use draw.io. Cloud computing is now well-established and even winning over those businesses who once felt they would never move from data center or on-prem. Once [...]

By |2022-10-27T14:42:33+02:00October 27th, 2022|Atlassian, draw.io, feedback, use cases|

I 🧡 Process Diagrams – Top tips for creating process diagrams

This blog is part of our I 🧡 draw.io series, where our users get to tell us why they love draw.io. Follow us on Social media to learn how others use draw.io and hopefully pick up some tips and tricks. Process Diagrams or Flowcharts are a crucial part of many [...]

By |2023-04-26T21:45:08+02:00October 6th, 2022|draw.io, feedback, learning|

draw.io has a revamped Partner Portal

draw.io launches a revamped Partner Portal Our team at draw.io recognizes the critical work done by the worldwide network of Atlassian Solutions Partners. That's why we have been working hard behind the scenes to help our Partners help you, our customers. We are pleased to reveal that we have recently completed a significant upgrade [...]

By |2022-10-18T17:28:33+02:00October 4th, 2022|Atlassian, draw.io, news|

AWS architecture and draw.io, a match made in developer heaven

How do you keep 446 million people talking With mobile operations in 26 countries and fixed broadband operations in 17 countries, Vodafone is one of the world's largest telecommunications companies, and it's not just for person-to-person chin-wags. Vodafone helps businesses both nationally and internationally do business. Developing a system that allows the world to [...]

By |2023-05-08T08:39:59+02:00July 19th, 2022|Atlassian, draw.io, feature, productivity|

draw.io vs. Gliffy: starting a new business, all you need to know

There comes a time when it's time to diagram. You may be a hungry new start-up with a great concept, or maybe a seasoned developer launching their own business determined to launch the next big thing. We wish you well. You have the idea; now you need the tools Among [...]

By |2024-02-21T14:15:15+01:00June 24th, 2022|Atlassian, draw.io, Gliffy migration, pricing|

The art of the interface and how draw.io can help in turning a good app into a great app

What do a great joke and an excellent User Interface have in common? Answer: They are not so great if you have to explain them. The end user's experience is everything, no matter how elegant your coding or how well your market research targets a need, regardless of how innovative and powerful your code [...]

By |2022-10-18T17:30:39+02:00June 17th, 2022|customization, draw.io, feature, productivity|

How scribbles can help meet deadlines and enhance teamwork in Confluence

Communication Vital in any endeavor is how we exchange our thoughts and ideas. Unfortunately, however, the manner in which we do this sometimes leaves a lot to be desired. The planning, technical, and demo meetings are where the project evolves. And it's in these meetings that ideas are thrown around, problems are aired, and [...]

By |2022-10-18T17:30:37+02:00June 2nd, 2022|customization, draw.io, feature, feedback, learning|

A detective story, Root Cause Analysis, diagramming and the Chevrolet Corvette

Back in the day (the early 90's), the US car industry was in decline, but the engineers and managers at GM wanted to take the fight to the Europeans. The idea is to produce a high-performance sports car that could compete with the Germans and Italians yet remain affordable. This needed radical thinking, so [...]

By |2022-10-18T17:30:42+02:00May 19th, 2022|Business, draw.io, feature, learning, productivity, use cases|

How to improve your Sprints, Real-Time Live collaborative diagramming

It's good to talk Well, that was the marketing campaign of one major Telecoms giant, their marketing pushing the idea that live communication was way better than SMS or text messages. In some respects, they are completely right. Text messaging or reams of pages of text cannot replace the energy and spontaneity of a [...]

By |2022-10-18T17:31:32+02:00May 5th, 2022|draw.io, feature, integration, productivity, whiteboard|

Real-time multi-user collaborative diagramming

Working in Confluence Cloud has changed forever, real-time multi-user collaborative diagramming So, Teams 22 has come and gone, and the big news at the show was draw.io new killer feature, real-time Collaboration on drawings inside of Confluence Cloud. Running Confluence version 17.3.0 or later, Cloud users now have this epic new ability, it's communication [...]

By |2022-10-18T17:31:35+02:00April 28th, 2022|Atlassian, Business, draw.io, feature, productivity, whiteboard|