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10 years of the Technology Radar Platform spotlight
10 years of the Technology Radar Platform spotlight
10 years of the Technology Radar

Platforms Spotlight

10 years of Radar Back

÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ Technology Radar has been tracking changes in the tech landscape for a decade.

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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.

2010

Adopt

CloudÌý|ÌýFirefox

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Trial

Non-relational databasesÌý|ÌýAndroidÌý|ÌýEC2 & S3Ìý|ÌýMongoDB

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Assess

HTML 5Ìý|ÌýChrome|ÌýGoogle App EngineÌý|ÌýGPGPUÌý|ÌýOAuth

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Hold

IE8

2011

Adopt

AWS

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Trial

Heroku

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Assess

Node.jsÌý|ÌýOpenStackÌý|ÌýCloud Foundry

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2012

Adopt

Neo4J

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Trial

Linux containersÌý|ÌýPrivate cloudsÌý|ÌýEC2 & S3

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Assess

Hybrid clouds

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2013

Adopt

Elastic SearchÌý|ÌýRedis

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Trial

Hadoop 2.0

Ìý

Assess

PostgreSQL for NoSQL

2014

Ìý

Trial

iBeacon

Ìý

Assess

Backend as a serviceÌý|ÌýAkkaÌý|ÌýArm Server SoCÌý|ÌýTOTP Two-Factor AuthenticationÌý|ÌýApache SparkÌý|ÌýDocker

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Ìý

Hold

CMS as a platform

2015

Trial

Cloudera ImpalaÌý|ÌýAWS Lambda

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Assess

Apache MesosÌý|ÌýLinux security modulesÌý|ÌýH2OÌý|ÌýTime series databaseÌý|Ìý.NET CoreÌý|ÌýAWS ECSÌý|ÌýKubernetesÌý|ÌýMesosphere DCOS

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Hold

Overambitious API gateways

2016


Trial

Auth0

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Assess

TensorFlowÌý|ÌýNomad|ÌýApache Flink|ÌýEthereumÌý|ÌýHoloLens

2017

Trial

OpenTracingÌý|ÌýGoogle Cloud PlatformÌý|ÌýWeChat

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Assess

Kafka StreamsÌý|ÌýVoice platformsÌý|ÌýLoRaWANÌý|ÌýWindows Containers

2018

Trial

Contentful

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Assess

IstioÌý|ÌýQuorum

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Hold

Low-code platforms

2019

Trial

InfluxDBÌý|ÌýROS

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Assess

Oculus Quest

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