Technology Radars
Thoughtworks
Thoughtworks have an excellent set of artifacts called the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar.
The Technology Radar is a snapshot of tools, techniques, platforms, languages and frameworks based on the practical experiences of Thoughtworkers around the world. Published twice a year, it provides insights on how the world builds software today. Use it to identify and evaluate what’s important to you.
They also maintain an open-source project called thoughtworks/build-your-own-radar, which allows anyone to create their own technology radar using JSON, CSV or Google Sheet documents.
My twist
I have extended the Thoughtworks Technology Radar offerings in two primary ways
setchy/thoughtworks-tech-radar-volumes
github.com/setchy/thoughtworks-tech-radar-volumes
An automated process to create radar datasets for ALL Thoughtworks publications in CSV, JSON and Google Sheets formats, including blip movement data for all volumes.
setchy/build-your-own-radar@deploy/combined-enhancements
github.com/setchy/build-your-own-radar
A fork of thoughtworks/build-your-own-radar, hosted at radar.setchy.io, which incorporates all of my pending upstream enhancements.
These enhancements uplift the BYOR functionality to match that of the official thoughtworks radar, such as:
- alphabetic blip sorting
- deep linking to blips and quadrants
- fix for google tag manager
- update all dependencies, resolving vulnerabilities in libraries
- vscode on save settings configuration fix
- cleanup gitignore file
These enhancements are now available in v1.1.6:
- support for blip movement data via a new dataset column
status(new, no change, moved in, moved out) - consistent blip draw positions by blip number
Extended Technology Radars
Below are links to each of the Thoughtworks Technology Radars using this enhanced BYOR product.
- All Volumes
- Volume 1 - January, 2010
- Volume 2 - April, 2010
- Volume 3 - August, 2010
- Volume 4 - January, 2011
- Volume 5 - July, 2011
- Volume 6 - March, 2012
- Volume 7 - October, 2012
- Volume 8 - May, 2013
- Volume 9 - January, 2014
- Volume 10 - July, 2014
- Volume 11 - January, 2015
- Volume 12 - May, 2015
- Volume 13 - November, 2015
- Volume 14 - April, 2015
- Volume 15 - November, 2016
- Volume 16 - March, 2017
- Volume 17 - November, 2017
- Volume 18 - May, 2018
- Volume 19 - November, 2018
- Volume 20 - April, 2019
- Volume 21 - November, 2019
- Volume 22 - May, 2020
- Volume 23 - October, 2020
- Volume 24 - April, 2021
- Volume 25 - October, 2021
- Volume 26 - March, 2022
- Volume 27 - October, 2022
- Volume 28 - April, 2023
- Volume 29 - September, 2023
- Volume 30 - April, 2024
- Volume 31 - October, 2024
- Volume 32 - April, 2025
- Volume 33 - November, 2025
- Volume 34 - April, 2026