Technology Radar
Strategic assessment of emerging and established technologies — with references to authoritative industry sources.
About This Radar
Each assessment is grounded in practitioner experience and corroborated by authoritative sources including the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar, CNCF Annual Survey, DORA State of DevOps, Gartner Hype Cycle, and Stack Overflow Developer Survey. Source links appear on each item.
Adopt
Technologies proven in production and ready for mainstream use. Strong recommendation for most enterprises.
PostgreSQL
Open-source relational database with JSON, Full-Text Search, and pgvector. Ranked #1 'most admired' database four years running.
Stack Overflow Survey 2024Kubernetes
Container orchestration standard. Used by 84% of cloud-native teams globally according to CNCF Annual Survey.
CNCF Annual Survey 2023Terraform
Infrastructure-as-Code standard. Vendor-neutral HCL syntax. Used by 77% of DevOps teams.
HashiCorp State of Cloud 2023Redis
In-memory data structure store. Industry standard for caching, sessions, pub-sub, and real-time analytics.
DB-Engines RankingOpenTelemetry
CNCF-graduated unified observability standard for metrics, logs, and traces. Replaces vendor-specific SDKs.
CNCF LandscapeGit / GitHub Actions
CI/CD via native GitHub workflows. 100M+ developers on GitHub. Actions ecosystem has 20,000+ marketplace actions.
GitHub Octoverse 2023Python
Dominant language for ML, data engineering, and backend APIs. Most popular language 12 years running.
Stack Overflow Survey 2024Trial
Technologies showing strong promise. Recommended for teams with engineering bandwidth for learning and experimentation.
pgvector
PostgreSQL extension for vector similarity search. Enables AI-native workloads without a separate vector database.
GitHub (pgvector)ClickHouse
Open-source columnar OLAP database. Processes billions of rows per second. Used by Cloudflare, ByteDance, eBay.
ClickHouse BenchmarkDatabricks
Lakehouse platform. Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools 2024.
Gartner Magic Quadrant 2024Backstage
CNCF-incubated developer portal. Adopted by 2,500+ organisations including Netflix, Spotify, American Airlines.
CNCF Backstage AdoptersAI Coding Agents
Autonomous code generation tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codeium). Developers report 55% productivity gains on repetitive tasks.
GitHub Copilot ResearchTemporal
Open-source workflow orchestration engine. Used by Stripe, Netflix, and DoorDash for durable, stateful processes.
Temporal Case StudiesAssess
Early-stage or specialised technologies. Monitor and sandbox-test. Not yet ready for critical production systems.
Agentic AI Platforms
Autonomous multi-agent systems (AutoGen, LangGraph, CrewAI). Gartner places Autonomous AI Agents in the 'Peak of Inflated Expectations' for 2024.
Gartner Hype Cycle 2024Distributed SQL
NewSQL databases (CockroachDB, TiDB, YugabyteDB). ThoughtWorks recommends assessment for global-scale OLTP requirements.
ThoughtWorks Radar Vol.29GraphRAG
Graph-augmented retrieval for knowledge-intensive AI. Microsoft Research published foundational GraphRAG paper in April 2024.
Microsoft Research 2024Platform Engineering Portals
Specialised IDP tooling beyond Backstage (Port, Cortex, OpsLevel). Market consolidating; ThoughtWorks moved IDP to Trial in 2024.
ThoughtWorks Radar Vol.30WebAssembly (Server-side)
WASM runtime beyond browsers for edge/cloud workloads. CNCF WASM working group actively developing ecosystem standards.
CNCF WASM Working GroupHold
Patterns and technologies to minimise or avoid. Significant drawbacks exist or safer alternatives are available.
Uncontrolled AI Agents
Autonomous agents deployed without human-in-the-loop guardrails. NIST AI RMF 1.0 explicitly requires human oversight for high-risk AI systems.
NIST AI Risk Management FrameworkTool Sprawl
Uncontrolled proliferation of overlapping tools increases cognitive load, security surface, and cost. DORA reports toolchain complexity as a top predictor of low delivery performance.
DORA State of DevOps 2023Unvalidated RAG Systems
LLM systems with RAG pipelines deployed without hallucination evaluation. AWS and Google both publish evaluation frameworks to assess retrieval quality before production deployment.
AWS Bedrock Evaluation DocsLift-and-Shift Cloud Migration
Moving on-premises workloads to cloud without re-architecture. Gartner research shows lift-and-shift typically increases cloud spend by 30–40% versus re-platforming.
Gartner Cloud Cost OptimisationOver-engineered Microservices
Microservices for small teams or simple domains. Amazon Prime Video's 2023 monolith reversion saved 90% of infrastructure costs and is the canonical case study against premature decomposition.
Amazon Prime Video Engineering BlogMonolithic Unstructured Data Lakes
Large unstructured storage without governance or data contracts. Gartner predicts 80% of data lakes become 'data swamps' without proper governance.
Gartner Data ManagementHow to Read the Radar
Adopt
Production-proven. Strong recommendation for most enterprises. Low adoption risk.
Trial
Promising and maturing. Recommended for teams with bandwidth. Manage operational risk.
Assess
Worth monitoring. Sandbox and POC only. Not ready for critical production systems.
Hold
Avoid or minimise. Significant drawbacks, better alternatives exist, or anti-patterns.
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