What is the Tech Radar?

The emnify 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 we are using and want to keep using in the future.
• TRIAL — Technologies that we assessed and think are worth pursuing. We will to try this technology where we can handle the risk.
• ASSESS — Technologies that we are interested in and want to take for a test run on a small scope.
• ON HOLD — Technology we use or we have used and don’t want to use for new initiatives anymore.

What is the purpose?

The Tech Radar is a tool to inspire and support Engineering teams at emnify 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 the pioneering work of 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.

BTW, if you would like to create your own Tech Radar — Zalando has open sourced the code to generate this visualization.