Thoughtworks Technology Radar #26

Adopt

1. Four key metrics

   • Google Cloud's DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA)
   • Four Keys
     • Deployment Frequency
     • Lead Time for Changes
     • Time to Restore Services
     • Change Failure Rate
   • The 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps: Elite performance, productivity, and scaling | Google Cloud Blog

2. Single team remote wall

Trial

1. Data mesh

   • How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh (martinfowler.com)
   • Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale 1st Edition

2. Definition of production readiness

   • Google - Site Reliability Engineering (sre.google) - Production Readiness Review (PRR)

3. Documentation quadrants

   • Documentation System (divio.com) - Documentation Quadrants

4. Rethinking remote standups

   • Stand-Up Meetings Are Dead (and What to Do Instead) - Honeycomb - Meandering Team Sync

5. Server-driven UI

   • Micro frontends for mobile | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks - Scale Across Teams
   • SPA by default | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks - Everything Being Done Client Side

6. Software Bill of Materials

   • Log4Shell - Wikipedia - Log4Shell

7. Tactical forking

   • Tactical Forking – Fausto De La Torre (wordpress.com) - Tactical Foring

8. Team cognitive load

   • Inverse Conway Maneuver | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks - Inverse Conway Maneuver
   • Book — Team Topologies
   • TeamTopologies/Team-Cognitive-Load-Assessment

9. Transitional architecture

   • Transitional Architecture (martinfowler.com)

Assess

1. CUPID

   • SOLID - Wikipedia
   • CUPID—for joyful coding - Dan North & Associates Ltd

2. Inclusive design

   • Microsoft Design

3. Operator pattern for nonclustered resources

   • Kubernetes Operators | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Kube-managed cloud services | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Crossplane | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Flux (fluxcd.io)
   • Argo CD | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

4. Service mesh without sidecar

   • Service mesh | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • eBPF | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • How eBPF will solve Service Mesh - Goodbye Sidecars (isovalent.com)
   • cilium/cilium-service-mesh-beta: Instructions and issue tracking for Service Mesh capabilities of Cilium (github.com)

5. SLSA

   • SLSA • Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts
   • SLSA • Threats and mitigations
   • SLSA • Requirements

6. The streaming data warehouse

   • Apache Spark | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Apache Flink | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Kafka Streams | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • ksqlDB | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Materialize | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

7. TinyML

   • An Introduction to TinyML. Machine Learning Meets Embedded Systems | by Arun | Towards Data Science

Hold

1. Azure Data Factory for orchestration

   • Data Factory - Data Integration Service | Microsoft Azure
   • Airflow | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

2. Miscellaneous platform teams

   • Platform engineering product teams | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

3. Production data in test environments

4. SPA by default

   • Hotwire | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

Adopt

Trial

1. Azure DevOps

   • Azure DevOps Services | Microsoft Azure
   • Azure Pipelines | Microsoft Azure

2. Azure Pipeline templates

   • Templates - Azure Pipelines | Microsoft Docs
   • Pipeline deployment approvals - Azure Pipelines | Microsoft Docs
   • CircleCI | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Reusable workflows in Github Actions | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

3. CircleCI

   • Continuous Integration and Delivery - CircleCI
   • Concepts - CircleCI
   • Choosing an Executor Type - CircleCI

4. Couchbase

   • Couchbase: The Modern Database for Enterprise Applications
   • Membase (github.com)
   • Apache CouchDB

5. eBPF

   • eBPF - Introduction, Tutorials & Community Resources
   • Istio | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • solo-io/bumblebee: Get eBPF programs running from the cloud to the kernel in 1 line of bash (github.com)
   • Cilium | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • How eBPF will solve Service Mesh - Goodbye Sidecars (isovalent.com)

6. GitHub Actions

   • GitHub Actions Documentation - GitHub Docs
   • GitHub Marketplace · to improve your workflow
   • Security hardening for GitHub Actions - GitHub Docs
   • nektos/act: Run your GitHub Actions locally

7. GitLab CI/CD

   • Iterate faster, innovate together | GitLab
   • GitLab CI/CD | GitLab
   • Testcontainers | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

8. Google BigQuery ML

   • BigQuery ML documentation  |  Google Cloud
   • Explainability as a first-class model selection criterion | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • BigQuery Explainable AI Overview  |  BigQuery ML  |  Google Cloud

9. Google Cloud Dataflow

   • Dataflow  |  Google Cloud
   • Apache Beam

10. Reusable workflows in Github Actions

    • GitHub Actions | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
    • Reusing workflows - GitHub Docs
    • CircleCI | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
    • Azure Pipeline templates | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

11. Sealed Secrets

    • Kubernetes | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
    • etcd
    • bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets: A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets (github.com)

12. VerneMQ

    • vernemq/vernemq: A distributed MQTT message broker based on Erlang/OTP. Built for high quality & Industrial use cases. (github.com)
    • Mosquitto | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
    • EMQ | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

Assess

1. actions-runner-controller

   • actions-runner-controller/actions-runner-controller: Kubernetes controller for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners
   • Controllers | Kubernetes
   • Hosting your own runners - GitHub Docs
   • GitHub Actions | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

2. Apache Iceberg

   • Apache Iceberg
   • Queries | Apache Iceberg
   • Partitioning | Apache Iceberg
   • Evolution | Apache Iceberg
   • Apache Parquet
   • Apache ORC • High-Performance Columnar Storage for Hadoop
   • Welcome to Avro! (apache.org)
   • Dremio | The Forever-Free Data Lakehouse Platform
   • Trino | Distributed SQL query engine for big data
   • Apache Spark - Unified Engine for large-scale data analytics
   • Apache Flink: Stateful Computations over Data Streams
   • Home | Delta Lake
   • Hello from Apache Hudi | Apache Hudi
   • Using Iceberg Tables - Amazon Athena
   • Snowflake Data Cloud | Enable the Most Critical Workloads

3. Blueboat

   • losfair/blueboat: Blueboat is a batteries-included, multi-tenant runtime for serverless web applications. (github.com)
   • Rust | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Cloudflare Workers | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Deno Deploy

4. Cloudflare Pages

   • Cloudflare Workers | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Cloudflare Pages
   • Cloudflare Pages Goes Full Stack
   • JAMstack | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

5. Colima

   • abiosoft/colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup (github.com)
   • containerd – An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability

6. Collibra

   • Collibra: Helping Organizations Become United by Data | Collibra
   • Data mesh | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

7. CycloneDX

   • OWASP CycloneDX Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) Standard
   • Software Bill of Materials | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • CycloneDX Tool Center
   • CycloneDX/cyclonedx-cli: CycloneDX CLI tool for SBOM analysis, merging, diffs and format conversions. (github.com)

8. Embeddinghub

   • featureform/embeddinghub: A vector database for machine learning embeddings. (github.com)
   • Embeddings in Machine Learning: Everything You Need to Know | FeatureForm
   • Milvus 2.0 | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

9. Temporal

   • Homepage | Temporal
   • uber/cadence: Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way. (github.com)
   • Sagas (microservices.io)

Hold

Adopt

1. tfsec

   • Terraform | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • aquasecurity/tfsec: Security scanner for your Terraform code (github.com)

Trial

1. AKHQ

   • Quick preview | AKHQ

2. cert-manager

   • cert-manager
   • Kubernetes | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

3. Cloud Carbon Footprint

   • Cloud Carbon Footprint - An open source tool to measure and analyze cloud carbon emissions
   • Carbon Cloud Footprint | HolaLuz | Thoughtworks

4. Conftest

   • open-policy-agent/conftest: Write tests against structured configuration data using the Open Policy Agent Rego query language (github.com)
   • Open Policy Agent | Policy Language
   • Open Policy Agent (OPA) | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Kubernetes | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Tekton | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Terraform | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

5. kube-score

   • zegl/kube-score: Kubernetes object analysis with recommendations for improved reliability and security (github.com)
   • kube-score/README_CHECKS.md at master · zegl/kube-score (github.com)
   • Conftest | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

6. Lighthouse

   • 使用 Lighthouse 审查网络应用  |  Tools for Web Developers  |  Google Developers
   • Performance testing as a first-class citizen | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Architectural fitness function | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • GoogleChrome/lighthouse-ci: Automate running Lighthouse for every commit, viewing the changes, and preventing regressions (github.com)
   • lighthouse-ci/getting-started.md at main · GoogleChrome/lighthouse-ci (github.com)

7. Metaflow

   • Netflix/metaflow: Build and manage real-life data science projects with ease! (github.com)
   • MLflow | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

8. Micrometer

   • Micrometer Application Monitoring

9. NUKE

   • Home | NUKE
   • Cake - Home (cakebuild.net)
   • FAKE - F# Make - A DSL for build tasks

10. Pactflow

    • Pact Foundation (github.com)
    • Pactflow | Contract Testing with Pact at Scale

11. Podman

    • Docker | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
    • containers/podman: Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods. (github.com)
    • Rootless containers | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
    • Open Container Initiative - Open Container Initiative (opencontainers.org)
    • containers/buildah: A tool that facilitates building OCI images. (github.com)

12. Sourcegraph

    • Comby | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
    • Sourcegraph - Universal Code Search

13. Syft

    • Software Bill of Materials | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
    • anchore/syft: CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems (github.com)
    • CycloneDX | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
    • Grype | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
    • Cosign | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

14. Volta

    • Volta - The Hassle-Free JavaScript Tool Manager

15. Web Test Runner

    • Web Test Runner: Modern Web (modern-web.dev)
    • Modern Web (modern-web.dev)
    • Puppeteer | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
    • Playwright | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
    • Web Dev Server: Modern Web (modern-web.dev)

Assess

1. CDKTF

   • Infrastructure as code | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Terraform | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Terragrunt | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • What is CDKTF? | Terraform by HashiCorp
   • AWS Cloud Development Kit | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Pulumi | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

2. Chrome Recorder panel

   • Recorder: Record, replay and measure user flows - Chrome Developers

3. Excalidraw

   • Excalidraw | Hand-drawn look & feel • Collaborative • Secure

4. GitHub Codespaces

   • GitHub Codespaces
   • Development environments in the cloud | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Gitpod | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

5. GoReleaser

   • goreleaser/goreleaser: Deliver Go binaries as fast and easily as possible (github.com)

6. Grype

   • anchore/grype: A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems (github.com)
   • Syft | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Software Bill of Materials | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

7. Infracost

   • Run cost as architecture fitness function | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Cloud cost estimates for Terraform in pull requests | Infracost

8. jc

   • Modern Unix commands | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • jc | CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools and file-types to JSON or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts. (kellyjonbrazil.github.io)

9. skopeo

   • containers/skopeo: Work with remote images registries - retrieving information, images, signing content (github.com)

10. SQLFluff

    • The SQL Linter for Humans — SQLFluff 0.11.2 documentation

11. Terraform Validator

    • Infrastructure as code | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
    • tfsec | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
    • GoogleCloudPlatform/terraform-validator: Terraform Validator can run pre-deployment checks on Terraform plans for policy compliance. (github.com)

12. Typesense

    • typesense/typesense: Open Source alternative to Algolia and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences (github.com)
    • MeiliSearch | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

Hold

Adopt

1. SwiftUI

   • SwiftUI Overview - Xcode - Apple Developer
   • Combine | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • ViewInspector | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

2. Testcontainers

   • Testcontainers
   • testcontainers (github.com)

Trial

1. Bob

   • callstack/react-native-builder-bob: ‍♂️ Simple set of CLIs to scaffold and build React Native libraries for different targets (github.com)

2. Flutter-Unity widget

   • juicycleff/flutter-unity-view-widget: Embeddable unity game engine view for Flutter. Advance demo here https://github.com/juicycleff/flutter-unity-arkit-demo

3. Kotest

   • Kotest | Kotest
   • Kotlin | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Property-based unit testing | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

4. Swift Package Manager

   • Carthage | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • apple/swift-package-manager: The Package Manager for the Swift Programming Language (github.com)

5. Vowpal Wabbit Assess

   • Vowpal Wabbit
   • VowpalWabbit 9.0.0 Release Notes
   • Python 8.11 to 9 migration — VowpalWabbit latest documentation

6. Android Gradle plugin - Kotlin DSL

   • 将构建配置从 Groovy 迁移到 KTS  |  Android 开发者  |  Android Developers

7. Azure Bicep

   • Bicep language for deploying Azure resources - Azure Resource Manager | Microsoft Docs
   • Bicep - Visual Studio Marketplace

8. Capacitor

   • Cross mobile platforms | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • React Native | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Capacitor by Ionic - Cross-platform apps with web technology (capacitorjs.com)
   • PhoneGap/Apache Cordova | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
   • Progressive Web Applications | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

9. Java 17

   • JEP 406: Pattern Matching for switch (Preview) (java.net)

10. Jetpack Glance

    • Jetpack Compose | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
    • Glance  |  Android 开发者  |  Android Developers
    • Android Developers Blog: Announcing Glance: Tiles for Wear OS made simple (googleblog.com)

11. Jetpack Media3

    • Media3  |  Android 开发者  |  Android Developers

12. MistQL

    • evinism/mistql: A miniature common expression language for querying JSON-like structures. Tuned for clientside ML feature extraction. (github.com)

13. npm workspaces

    • workspaces | npm Docs (npmjs.com)

14. Remix

    • Remix - Build Better Websites
    • Next.js | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

15. ShedLock

    • Apache ZooKeeper
    • Consul | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
    • Couchbase | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
    • lukas-krecan/ShedLock: Distributed lock for your scheduled tasks (github.com)

16. SpiceDB

    • authzed/spicedb: Inspired by Google's Zanzibar paper, SpiceDB is an open source database system for managing security-critical application permissions. (github.com)
    • Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System – Google Research
    • API Overview | authzed
    • Selecting a Datastore | authzed

17. sqlc

    • kyleconroy/sqlc: Generate type-safe code from SQL (github.com)

18. The Composable Architecture

    • SwiftUI | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
    • pointfreeco/swift-composable-architecture: A library for building applications in a consistent and understandable way, with composition, testing, and ergonomics in mind. (github.com)

19. WebAssembly

    • WebAssembly
    • The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project

20. Zig

    • Home Zig Programming Language (ziglang.org)
    • The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project

Hold