How to Document Your Microservice Architecture (And Actually Keep It Up to Date)

Developer documenting microservice architecture on multiple screens

TL;DR — Microservice architecture documentation fails for one reason: it lives in a different system than the code. The only documentation that stays accurate is documentation that updates automatically when the architecture changes. That means YAML-defined service maps, not Confluence pages or Lucidchart diagrams maintained by hand. Every engineering team has a version of this […]