The latest articles on DEV Community by Kamal Buqaileh (@kamal_buqaileh_730684fc57). https://dev.to/kamal_buqaileh_730684fc57 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3894320%2F2291a7d7-10c4-4811-9aea-4c7b476bcfb8.jpg https://dev.to/kamal_buqaileh_730684fc57 en Kamal Buqaileh Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:53:29 +0000 https://dev.to/kamal_buqaileh_730684fc57/i-built-an-engine-to-map-out-massive-rails-monoliths-here-is-the-gitlab-architecture-1cf3 https://dev.to/kamal_buqaileh_730684fc57/i-built-an-engine-to-map-out-massive-rails-monoliths-here-is-the-gitlab-architecture-1cf3 <p> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0tBujUHfHg4"> </iframe> <br> Onboarding onto a legacy Ruby on Rails codebase is usually a nightmare. You get dropped into a 10-year-old monolith with zero documentation and are expected to start tracing dependencies manually.</p> <p>I got tired of the unreadable "hairball" graphs, so I built GraphOps (MVP). It’s an automated engine that extracts macro-level architecture and micro-level execution flows (like sequence diagrams) directly from your codebase.</p> <p>To prove it can handle massive scale, I just mapped the entire open-source GitLab monolith. (See the video below!)</p> <p>I spun up a public, read-only sandbox so you can explore the architecture, click through the namespaces, and see the execution traces yourself:</p> <p>🔗<a href="https://www.graphops.tech/home/projects/" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Explore the live GitLab Sandbox here</a></p> <p>It currently only supports Ruby. I am looking for brutal engineering feedback from the Rails community on this approach to codebase visualization. Let me know what you think!</p> rails ruby softwareengineering architecture