Technology Radar
Here’s my personal technology radar. Its inspired by the Thoughtworks one.
A key difference is that the entries here relates to my personal preferences, experience and perceived value. They neither reflect the opinions of my current nor previous employers. Tiers and their meanings are:
- Adopt: Preferred. Used consistently when possible/applicable
- Trial: Seems valuable. Needs more real world opportunities to evaluate
- Assess: Interesting. Needs a MVP/PoC to gain practical experience
- Hold: Best avoided. May have niche uses. Think thrice before using it
Click on a blip or on a list entry for details about my reasoning to classify it that way. Missing something in particular? I may forgot it or am just lazy to add more. I appreciate any reminders or pointers to further update it!
Take it all with a grain of salt. 😉
Techniques
Adopt
- C4 Model WIP
- Continuous Delivery (CD) WIP
- Continuous Integration (CI) WIP
- Diagram as Code WIP
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- Emergent Design WIP
- Infrastructure as Code WIP
- Pipeline as Code WIP
- Request For Comments (RFC) WIP
- Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) WIP
- Trunk-Based-Development WIP
- Unix Philosophy WIP
- Zero Trust Architecture WIP
- Conventional Commits WIP
Trial
- Backend For Frontend (BFF) WIP
- Continuous Deployment WIP
- Functional Paradigm WIP
- Staff Software Engineer WIP
- Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
- GitOps WIP
Assess
- Unikernel WIP
Hold
- 10x Engineer WIP
- Big Design Up Front (BDUF) WIP
- CI Theatre WIP
- Database Stored Procedures WIP
- DevOps Engineer
- Markup Templating WIP
- Scaled Agile Framework®️ (SAFe ™️) WIP
- Cloud Solution Architect
Languages
Adopt
- Golang WIP
Trial
- Haskell WIP
- TypeScript WIP
Assess
- Crystal WIP
- Elixir WIP
- Elm WIP
- Erlang WIP
- Lua WIP
- Rust WIP
- WebAssembly WIP
- Zig WIP
- Dagger CI WIP
Hold
- Azure Bicep WIP
- Clojure WIP
- JavaScript WIP
- PowerShell WIP
- Ruby WIP
- Scala
- Shell script WIP
- Java WIP
Platforms
Adopt
- Kubernetes WIP
Trial
- Backstage WIP
- Flux CD WIP
Assess
- Apache Kafka WIP
- CircleCI WIP
- Cloudflare Pages WIP
- Cloudflare Workers WIP
- eBPF WIP
- OpenMetadata WIP
Hold
- .NET WIP
- Azure Pipelines
- JVM WIP
- Azure DevOps
Tools
Adopt
- 1Password WIP
- Conftest WIP
- Container Structure Test WIP
- Github WIP
- GitHub Actions WIP
- GNU Make WIP
- Hadolint WIP
- Helm WIP
- Kind WIP
- Kustomize WIP
- Pre-Commit WIP
- ShellCheck WIP
- Sonar WIP
- Terraform WIP
Trial
- CFEngine WIP
- Kube-bench WIP
- Pulumi WIP
- Snyk WIP
- Sonobuoy WIP
Assess
- Ansible WIP
- Buildpacks WIP
- Cilium WIP
- Consul WIP
- Crossplane WIP
- Packer WIP
- Podman WIP
- Regula WIP
Hold
- draw.io WIP
- Mermaid diagrams WIP