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10 years of the Technology Radar Techniques Spotlight
10 years of the Technology Radar Techniques Spotlight
10 years of the Technology Radar

Tools Spotlight

10 years of Radar Back

Thoughtworks Technology Radar has been tracking changes in the tech landscape for a decade.

 

Here, we look back at some of the most notable blips that have appeared in the Tools quadrants — where many things were called out long before they hit the mainstream.

2010

Adopt

ASP.NET MVC | Firefox

 

Trial

Distributed version control | Subversion | Git | Mercurial | Puppet

 

Assess

Next-generation test tools| Cross mobile platforms| GitHub |NoSQL

 

Hold

ESB

2011

Adopt

Infrastructure as code | Caching reverse proxies

 

Trial

Splunk| New Relic beyond Rails

 

Assess

Vagrant| Gradle| Selenium 2 testing of mobile websites |Sonar

 

Hold

Code in configuration

2012

Adopt

AppCode | Embedded servlet containers | Immutable servers

 

Trial

Apache Pig| D3 | Rake for Java & .NET | JavaScript tooling | Log aggregation & indexing

 

Assess

Zipkin

 

Hold

Maven

2013

Trial

Jekyll| Logstash & Graylog2 | PhantomJS | Librarian-puppet and librarian-Chef

 

Assess

Hystrix

2014

Adopt

Dependency management for JavaScript

 

Trial

Pact & Pacto| Moco | Gulp | GoCD |Flyway | SnapCI | Chaos Monkey | Ansible

 

Assess

Cloud-init | Appium | Mountebank | Spark | Swagger

 

Hold

Ant

2015


Trial

Boot2docker| Gitlab | Postman | IndexedDB

 

Assess

Terraform| Apache Kafka| Prometheus |Security Monkey | Gauge | Let's Encrypt | Visual Studio Code

2016

Adopt

Babel | Grafana

 

Trial

Talisman| Zipkin |Webpack | OWASP Dependency-Check

 

Assess

HashiCorp Vault

 

Hold

Jenkins as a deployment pipeline

2017

Trial

Airflow| Buildkite |Headless Chrome for front-end test | Serverless Framework

 

Assess

spaCy | Yarn | Cypress | Jupyter

2018

Trial

Appium Test Distribution| Helm | git-secrets | LocalStack |Prettier| UI dev environments | Visual Studio Live Share

 

Assess

ArchUnit | Scout2 | Stanford CoreNLP | TestCafe

2019

Adopt

Commitizen

 

Trial

Elasticsearch LTR| Yocto Project

 

Assess

Detekt | Kubernetes Operators | Terratest | asdf-vm | Open Policy Agent (OPA) | What-If Tool

2020

Adopt

Dependency management for JavaScript

 

Trial

DVC| Experiment tracking tools for machine learning | kind

 

Assess

AsyncAPI | Gitpod |tfsec

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