William Artero
William Artero

automating a way out of tasks since 2010

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Technology Radar

Here’s my personal technology radar. Its inspired by the Thoughtworks one.

A key difference is that the entries here are based on 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. 😉

William Artero personal tech radarAdoptTrialAssessHoldTechniquesLanguagesPlatformsTools10x Engineer01Password1Ansible3Apache Kafka4Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)5Azure Bicep6Azure DevOps7Azure Pipelines8Backend For Frontend (BFF)9Backstage10Big Design Up Front (BDUF)11Buildpacks12C4 Model13CFEngine14CI Theatre15Cilium16CircleCI17Clojure18Cloud Solution Architect19Cloudflare Pages20Cloudflare Workers21Conftest22Consul23Container Structure Test24Continuous Delivery (CD)25Continuous Deployment26Continuous Integration (CI)27Conventional Commits28Crossplane29Crystal30Dagger CI31Database Stored Procedures32DevOps Engineer33Diagram as Code34Domain-Driven Design (DDD)35.NET36draw.io37eBPF38Elixir39Elm40Emergent Design41Erlang42Flux CD43Functional Paradigm44GitHub Actions45Github46GitOps47GNU Make48Golang49Hadolint50Haskell51Helm52Infrastructure as Code53Java54JavaScript55JVM56Kind57Kube-bench58Kubernetes59Kustomize60Lua61Markup Templating62Mermaid diagrams63OpenMetadata64Packer65Pipeline as Code66Podman67PowerShell68Pre-Commit69Pulumi70Regula73Request For Comments (RFC)74Ruby75Rust76Scala77Scaled Agile Framework®️ (SAFe ™️)78Shell script79ShellCheck80Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)81Snyk82Sonar83Sonobuoy84Staff Software Engineer85Terraform86Trunk-Based-Development87TypeScript88Unikernel89Unix Philosophy90WebAssembly91Zero Trust Architecture92Zig93

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

Assess

  1. Unikernel WIP

Hold

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

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. Java WIP
  4. JavaScript WIP
  5. PowerShell WIP
  6. Ruby WIP
  7. Scala
  8. Shell script WIP

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 DevOps
  3. Azure Pipelines
  4. JVM WIP

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