Who Can Benefit from RIDDL?

RIDDL is technology-agnostic, but not design-agnostic. It is purposefully aimed at the design of large scale, distributed systems based on a reactive architecture. RIDDL allows specification of the design of a system, without regard to programming language, cloud vendor choice, or specific technology choices. Using RIDDL allows a living design to evolve through every stage of the development process and then through continuing maintenance and evolution of the system designed.

Consequently, the people who can benefit from RIDDL are software development teams that want a precise and consistent way of specifying their evolving design as a guide to all stakeholders. RIDDL aims to support such teams with productivity increases by:

• Keeping documentation in sync with the design—no more stale wikis
• Providing structured context that AI tools can use to generate accurate code
• Enabling iterative refinement from high-level concepts to detailed specs
• Creating a single source of truth that all stakeholders can reference