Engineering Onboarding in Microservice Systems: Solving the Documentation Problem

Engineering team collaborating during onboarding session

TL;DR — Onboarding a new engineer into a microservice system takes 2–6 weeks not because the engineer is slow, but because the system model is locked inside senior engineers’ heads. The fix isn’t better onboarding documents — it’s a queryable, always-current map of how the services connect, so new engineers can navigate the system themselves […]