This platform automatically generates and updates documentation for cloud-native projects, ensuring accuracy and consistency. By integrating with CI/CD pipelines, it provides software development teams with a developer portal that visualizes up-to-date technical documentation.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Manually creating and maintaining internal technical documentation for cloud-native projects is time-consuming and often results in outdated, inconsistent, and untrustworthy information. This can lead to confusion, errors, and slower development cycles, especially in complex microservices architectures.
Solution
ContextMap automates the generation and updating of documentation for cloud-native projects by continuously scanning code, configurations, and deployments. It consolidates this information into a single architectural view and presents it in an intuitive developer portal. By integrating with CI/CD pipelines, ContextMap ensures that documentation remains accurate and up-to-date, providing a comprehensive overview of even the most complex microservices architectures. This allows development teams to focus on development, testing, and analysis, rather than spending time on manual documentation.
Target Audience
ContextMap is designed for software development teams, including developers, testers, analysts, and architects, working on cloud-native applications and microservices architectures.
Features
- Automated documentation generation through static and dynamic analysis of projects.
- Integration with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkinsfile, GitHub Actions) for continuous documentation updates.
- Support for various languages (Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, JavaScript), builders (Maven, NodeJS), frameworks (Spring, Angular, React), storages (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, MySQL, MongoDB), message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Azure EventHub/ServiceBus), and Git version control.
- Visualization of system-level architecture, components, entities, aggregate roots, and bounded contexts.
- API catalog for REST and event APIs.
- Component catalog listing releases, deployments, and owning teams/organizations.
- Visual management features to visualize team ownership, coupling between components, and component size.
- Search functionality for structured technical information.
- Support for documenting exemplary code, architectural decision records (ADRs), Gherkin feature files, and business capabilities.