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Hi HN, I'm looking to automate some web workflows. Here's an example of a what the tool would do.

1. Open a new tab, navigate to my builds page. Select the latest successful build, and click on the link. Copy the url to the latest build artifact.

2. Open a new tab, go to my deploy tool. Paste in the artifact link from the earlier step. Fill in some other values in a form, and hit submit.

I know the above is possible with something like Selenium web driver, but I'm looking for something with a GUI, that would quickly let me put together such workflows.

If something like the above doesn't exist, I would like to build it, but I do want to make sure that I'm not missing anything obvious first. I'm thinking of implementing a chrome extension that would use Web APIs to run the steps above. The GUI for building the workflows would live separately.

I work at a large company with hundreds of microservices. There are numerous architecture diagrams distributed across different wiki pages. These are often outdated or wrong. There's no good way to search for the architecture of a component. It's not easy to tell at a glance what other services a service interacts with.

Would love to hear if any company has really nailed a system for how to produce, maintain and organize this data.

Are there any tools that help create a master architecture diagram? Something that can you zoom into to see details at different levels?

How do you spend your free time? Is it rewarding?