Documenting is a contract between thebackend and the frontend that takes care of dependency management between the two sides. If the API changes, the document needs to adapt to it quickly. One of the easiest fails in development can be the lack of visibility or lack of awareness about other people's work. Often, the traditional approach is to write service specification documents or use some static service registries that maintain different things. No matter how hard we try, documentation always goes out of date.
Documentation of development and organizational understanding of thesystem increases developers, skill and speed while dealing with two of the most common challenges that come with microservice adoption—technical and organizational change. The importance of thorough, updated documentation cannot be underestimated. Whenever we ask someone about problems they face while doing anything new, the answer is the same. We all face the same issue: we don't...