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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 radar Adopt Trial Assess Hold Techniques Languages Platforms Tools 10x Engineer 0 1Password 1 Ansible 3 Apache Kafka 4 Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) 5 Azure Bicep 6 Azure DevOps 7 Azure Pipelines 8 Backend For Frontend (BFF) 9 Backstage 10 Big Design Up Front (BDUF) 11 Buildpacks 12 C4 Model 13 CFEngine 14 CI Theatre 15 Cilium 16 CircleCI 17 Clojure 18 Cloud Solution Architect 19 Cloudflare Pages 20 Cloudflare Workers 21 Conftest 22 Consul 23 Container Structure Test 24 Continuous Delivery (CD) 25 Continuous Deployment 26 Continuous Integration (CI) 27 Crossplane 28 Crystal 29 Database Stored Procedures 30 DevOps Engineer 31 Diagram as Code 32 Domain-Driven Design (DDD) 33 .NET 34 draw.io 35 eBPF 36 Elixir 37 Elm 38 Emergent Design 39 Erlang 40 Functional Paradigm 41 GitHub Actions 42 Github 43 GNU Make 44 Golang 45 Hadolint 46 Haskell 47 Helm 48 Infrastructure as Code 49 Java 50 JavaScript 51 JVM 52 Kind 53 Kube-bench 54 Kubernetes 55 Kustomize 56 Lua 57 Markup Templating 58 Mermaid diagrams 59 OpenMetadata 60 Packer 61 Pipeline as Code 62 Podman 63 PowerShell 64 Pre-Commit 65 Pulumi 66 Regula 69 Request For Comments (RFC) 70 Ruby 71 Rust 72 Scala 73 Scaled Agile Framework®️ (SAFe ™️) 74 Shell script 75 ShellCheck 76 Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) 77 Snyk 78 Sonar 79 Sonobuoy 80 Staff Software Engineer 81 Terraform 82 Trunk-Based-Development 83 TypeScript 84 Unikernel 85 Unix Philosophy 86 WebAssembly 87 Zero Trust Architecture 88 Zig 89

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

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

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

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

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