Technology Radar

Technologies that I personally work with and believe in

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:

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. 😉

technology radar technology radar (techniques section)
Techniques

Adopt

  1. C4 Model WIP
  2. Continuous Delivery (CD) WIP
  3. Continuous Integration (CI) WIP
  4. Diagram as Code WIP
  5. Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
  6. Emergent Design WIP
  7. Infrastructure as Code WIP
  8. Pipeline as Code WIP
  9. Request For Comments (RFC) WIP
  10. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) WIP
  11. Trunk-Based-Development WIP
  12. Unix Philosophy WIP
  13. Zero Trust Architecture WIP
  14. Conventional Commits WIP

Trial

  1. Backend For Frontend (BFF) WIP
  2. Continuous Deployment WIP
  3. Functional Paradigm WIP
  4. Staff Software Engineer WIP
  5. Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
  6. GitOps WIP

Assess

  1. Unikernel WIP

Hold

  1. 10x Engineer WIP
  2. Big Design Up Front (BDUF) WIP
  3. CI Theatre WIP
  4. Database Stored Procedures WIP
  5. DevOps Engineer
  6. Markup Templating WIP
  7. Scaled Agile Framework®️ (SAFe ™️) WIP
  8. Cloud Solution Architect
technology radar (languages section)
Languages

Adopt

  1. Golang WIP

Trial

  1. Haskell WIP
  2. TypeScript WIP

Assess

  1. Crystal WIP
  2. Elixir WIP
  3. Elm WIP
  4. Erlang WIP
  5. Lua WIP
  6. Rust WIP
  7. WebAssembly WIP
  8. Zig WIP
  9. Dagger CI WIP

Hold

  1. Azure Bicep WIP
  2. Clojure WIP
  3. JavaScript WIP
  4. PowerShell WIP
  5. Ruby WIP
  6. Scala
  7. Shell script WIP
  8. Java WIP
technology radar (platforms section)
Platforms

Adopt

  1. Kubernetes WIP

Trial

  1. Backstage WIP
  2. Flux CD WIP

Assess

  1. Apache Kafka WIP
  2. CircleCI WIP
  3. Cloudflare Pages WIP
  4. Cloudflare Workers WIP
  5. eBPF WIP
  6. OpenMetadata WIP

Hold

  1. .NET WIP
  2. Azure Pipelines
  3. JVM WIP
  4. Azure DevOps
technology radar (tools section)
Tools

Adopt

  1. 1Password WIP
  2. Conftest WIP
  3. Container Structure Test WIP
  4. Github WIP
  5. GitHub Actions WIP
  6. GNU Make WIP
  7. Hadolint WIP
  8. Helm WIP
  9. Kind WIP
  10. Kustomize WIP
  11. Pre-Commit WIP
  12. ShellCheck WIP
  13. Sonar WIP
  14. Terraform WIP

Trial

  1. CFEngine WIP
  2. Kube-bench WIP
  3. Pulumi WIP
  4. Snyk WIP
  5. Sonobuoy WIP

Assess

  1. Ansible WIP
  2. Buildpacks WIP
  3. Cilium WIP
  4. Consul WIP
  5. Crossplane WIP
  6. Packer WIP
  7. Podman WIP
  8. Regula WIP

Hold

  1. draw.io WIP
  2. Mermaid diagrams WIP