Add ability to link services through APIs or by other means

[nahidakbar]

Use Case

Fully acknowledge that this tool is for documenting event driven architecture. But not all integration between domains and services in a typical organisation is going to be event based.

Most will be a mixture of event based and more common forms of integrations such as:

• RESTful
• GraphQL
• GRPC
• SOAP
• other API based

When you visualise a service in the visualiser, it would be good to have a way to document other associations with services.

Proposed Solution

Could be something as simple as this in service header

associations:
  - id: OtherService
    association:  consumes
    protocol: REST

not fast on specific format (e.g. above suggestion). More interested in the concept.

Implementation Notes

Would want to see it in node graph

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