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Your Architecture Diagrams Are Already Dead (You Just Haven’t Buried Them Yet)

Architecture drift isn’t a tooling problem, it’s a fundamental mismatch between how we build software and how we document it. Here’s why your diagrams are lying to you and what actually works.

#devops#documentation

ai-assisted

Validating Architecture in the Senior-Free Zone: Tactics from the Trenches

When senior architecture review isn’t available, engineers rely on peer collaboration, systematic testing, and AI-assisted documentation to validate design decisions before production proves them wrong.

#ai-assisted#documentation#peer-review...

data-governance

The WHERE Clause Documentation Gap: Where dbt’s Transparency Promise Breaks Down

#data-governance#dbt#documentation

architecture-as-code

Architecture as Code: The Automation Trap That’s Quietly Eroding Your System’s Integrity

The tools promising to automate your architecture diagrams are multiplying, but they’re creating a dangerous illusion of understanding while your actual system complexity spirals out of control.

#architecture-as-code#automation#diagrams...

C4 model

DrawIO Is Dead: The ‘Think, Write, Commit’ Revolution Coming for Software Architects

Manual diagramming tools are collapsing under the weight of modern software complexity. Here’s why code-driven architecture documentation, and AI that understands it, isn’t just a developer convenience, but a survival requirement.

#C4 model#documentation#gitops...

asyncapi

The Event-Driven Documentation Crisis Nobody Talks About

Examines the unique challenges of documenting asynchronous, distributed systems and why traditional approaches collapse at scale, plus emerging solutions that actually work.

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ci/cd

Backstage is Overkill, But Your Microservices Docs Are Still a Disaster

The brutal truth about documentation drift in microservices: why centralized portals fail small teams and how a CI/CD approach to docs actually works.

#ci/cd#developer-experience#documentation...

documentation

Documentation Is Your Secret Weapon, Not Your Punishment

Why treating docs as growth strategy separates thriving projects from forgotten GitHub repos

#documentation#knowledge-sharing#software-development