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 Platforms quadrants — where many things were called out, long before they hit the mainstream.
![2011 2011](/content/dam/thoughtworks/images/photography/side-by-side/insights/radar/tr_side_by_side_2011_platforms_spotlight.png)
![2012 2012](/content/dam/thoughtworks/images/photography/side-by-side/insights/radar/tr_side_by_side_2012_platforms_spotlight.png)
![2013 2013](/content/dam/thoughtworks/images/photography/side-by-side/insights/radar/tr_side_by_side_2013_platforms_spotlight.png)
![2014 2014](/content/dam/thoughtworks/images/photography/side-by-side/insights/radar/tr_side_by_side_2014_platforms_spotlight.png)
Trial
iBeacon
Assess
Backend as a service | Akka | Arm Server SoC | TOTP Two-Factor Authentication | Apache Spark | Docker
Hold
CMS as a platform
![2015 2015](/content/dam/thoughtworks/images/photography/side-by-side/insights/radar/tr_side_by_side_2015_platforms_spotlight.png)
Trial
Cloudera Impala | AWS Lambda
Assess
Apache Mesos | Linux security modules | H2O | Time series database | .NET Core | AWS ECS | Kubernetes | Mesosphere DCOS
Hold
Overambitious API gateways
![2016 2016](/content/dam/thoughtworks/images/photography/side-by-side/insights/radar/tr_side_by_side_2016_platforms_spotlight.png)
![2017 2017](/content/dam/thoughtworks/images/photography/side-by-side/insights/radar/tr_side_by_side_2017_platforms_spotlight.png)
Trial
OpenTracing | Google Cloud Platform | WeChat
Assess
Kafka Streams | Voice platforms | LoRaWAN | Windows Containers
![2018 2018](/content/dam/thoughtworks/images/photography/side-by-side/insights/radar/tr_side_by_side_2018_platforms_spotlight.png)
![2019 2019](/content/dam/thoughtworks/images/photography/side-by-side/insights/radar/tr_side_by_side_2019_platforms_spotlight.png)