The Tech Radar is a list of technologies complemented by an assessment result called ring assignment. We use four rings with the following semantics:
ADOPT — Technologies that we have high confidence in to serve our purposes. Technologies with low risk and recommended to be widely used.
TRIAL — Technologies that we have seen work with success in some projects. Technologies that are slightly more risky, but that have high probability for providing us some benefits and solve current problems in the short term.
ASSESS — Technologies that are promising and have clear potential for us. Technologies that worth to invest some research and prototyping efforts, in order to see if they have some impact.
HOLD — Technologies not recommended to be used for new projects. Technologies that we think are not (yet) worth to (further) invest in. Technologies that can be continued only for existing projects and legacy systems.
The Tech Radar is a tool to inspire and support engineering teams at Friendsurance to pick the best technologies for new projects. It provides a platform to share knowledge and experience in technologies, to reflect on technology decisions and continuously evolve our technology landscape. Based on ThoughtWorks, our Tech Radar sets out the changes in technologies that are interesting in software development — changes that we think our engineering teams should pay attention to and use in their projects.
The Tech Radar is maintained by our Engineering Managers — who facilitate and drive the technology selection discussions at Friendsurance across the engineering community.
Assignment of technologies to rings is the outcome of ring change proposals, which are discussed and voted on.
The Tech Radar is open for contribution for all engineering teams at Friendsurance and depends on their active participation to share lessons learned, pitfalls, and contribute to good practices on using the technologies.
This Tech Radar was generated using Zalando's open source code.