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title: "Vistecture"
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ring: assess
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quadrant: tools
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[Vistecture](https://vistecture.me/) is a tool for the visualization and analysis of distributed
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and/or microservice-oriented software architectures of any scale. It can be integrated in a projects
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CI pipeline for the automated generation of up-to-date documentation.
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With projects at AOE reaching a certain threshold of size and complexity, we started struggling
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with keeping documentation up to date manually, especially with regard to e.g. architecture diagrams
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or API request/response flows. Thus, we have developed a tool for the rendering of various kinds
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of documentation and visualizations based on a single architecture description file.
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Applications (microservices) and dependencies are defined using a simple, YAML-based syntax. This
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service definition can then be converted to the desired output formats or browsed in the Vistecture
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online viewer.
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