Dragonish

My experience is that ITs role is to manage organizational liability, not helping people. Perhaps i am naive, but i wanted a job in tech so that i could help support other people in doing amazing work. You do get to do that, but it needs to be constantly framed from that point of organizational liability in order to effect any change. Different orgs have different risk appetites and cultures that make that change easier or harder.

tbh i would still start a carrer in tech, i do not want to dissuade you from such. For me i was better able to navigate the day to day bullshit after i learned what they are actually paying me for vs the dream i had in my head.

That has been my experience as well. Signing with SSH keys has been way easier to maintain over time than GPG. Plus you can use the same key to sign that you use for authentication to simplify system setup.

I am a fan of structurizer and the C4 model in general.

I would use a single .dsl file and add the relationships and entities as you discover them. You can apply tags , and then write filtered views to only show specific tags for sub systems or workflows that a user will follow.

you can pair this with markdown/text notes that reference the png files of the views that structurizer will output.