u/BrickGeneral4003

The hardest part of microservices isn’t scaling it’s keeping documentation trustworthy

After the GitHub internal repo breach news, we did an audit of our own engineering workflows and realized something:

our API documentation ecosystem had quietly become chaos.

Different services had:

  • different spec versions
  • outdated onboarding docs
  • old auth examples
  • disconnected testing collections

The scary part is that nobody notices documentation drift until something breaks or until security incidents make everyone review internal workflows more carefully.

We started consolidating around workflows using OpenAPI tooling, Postman, Insomnia, Stoplight, and Apidog to keep specs/testing/docs closer together.

Curious how other teams here handle long-term API governance across growing microservice environments.

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u/BrickGeneral4003 — 1 day ago