Independent software studio
Make complex systems see‑through.
Diafyx builds tools that show what really happens inside databases and distributed systems: every step, traced from real source code and explained in plain English.
Work
TraceQuest
Open source · v0.1.0
Watch real systems run, one source-level step at a time. TraceQuest walks through the exact internal execution path of database and distributed-systems operations, animated as a journey you can play, pause, step through and rewind.
How we build
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Traced, not imagined
Every step maps to real functions, files and data structures in the system's own source code.
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Explain the why
Each step comes with a plain-English explanation of what is happening and why it matters.
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Small and careful
A few focused tools, built and maintained with care, rather than many half-finished ones.
About
Diafyx comes from the Greek dia, “through”, and phainein, “to show”: the same roots as diaphanous. Showing what happens through a system, from the request going in to the result coming out, is the whole idea.
Diafyx is an independent studio run by Sepuri Sai Krishna, a data engineer who spends a lot of time inside the internals of data and distributed systems.