If you don’t mind the runtime overhead OpenTelemetry would do the job (with maybe some sort of manual instrumentation for things like timers) and builds a service map.

IMO however if your services are closely tied together then how about grouping them together into one or multiple mono-repositories ? Or at least start designing your bounded contexts so that documenting by hand doesn’t become a maintenance burden.

More privacy and less profit 🫣

I realize most people could rather not pay for a service they currently have for free (which is partly due to the lack of transparency regarding our data usage).

I’d pick JavaScript, mostly because of the ecosystem (even though we could argue about this point 😅)

I’d love to give Rust a try however I don’t have much time nor want to dedicate to coding in my spare time!

I believe part of what makes the VS Code experience is the extension store. Is this managed in some way with this distributed flavor ?