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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

÷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 Tools quadrants — where many things were called out long before they hit the mainstream.

2010

Adopt

ASP.NET MVCÌý|ÌýFirefox

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Trial

Distributed version controlÌý|ÌýSubversionÌý|ÌýGitÌý|ÌýMercurialÌý|ÌýPuppet

Ìý

Assess

Next-generation test tools|ÌýCross mobile platforms|ÌýGitHubÌý|NoSQL

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Hold

ESB

2011

Adopt

Infrastructure as codeÌý|ÌýCaching reverse proxies

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Trial

Splunk|ÌýNew Relic beyond Rails

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Assess

Vagrant|ÌýGradle|ÌýSelenium 2 testing of mobile websitesÌý|Sonar

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Hold

Code in configuration

2012

Adopt

AppCodeÌý|ÌýEmbedded servlet containersÌý|ÌýImmutable servers

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Trial

Apache Pig|ÌýD3Ìý|ÌýRake for Java & .NETÌý|ÌýJavaScript toolingÌý|ÌýLog aggregation & indexing

Ìý

Assess

Zipkin

Ìý

Hold

Maven

2013

Trial

Jekyll|ÌýLogstash & Graylog2Ìý|ÌýPhantomJSÌý|ÌýLibrarian-puppet and librarian-Chef

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Assess

Hystrix

2014

Adopt

Dependency management for JavaScript

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Trial

Pact & Pacto|ÌýMocoÌý|ÌýGulpÌý|ÌýGoCDÌý|FlywayÌý|ÌýSnapCIÌý|ÌýChaos MonkeyÌý|ÌýAnsible

Ìý

Assess

Cloud-initÌý|ÌýAppiumÌý|ÌýMountebankÌý|ÌýSparkÌý|ÌýSwagger

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Hold

Ant

2015


Trial

Boot2docker|ÌýGitlabÌý|ÌýPostmanÌý|ÌýIndexedDB

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Assess

Terraform|ÌýApache Kafka|ÌýPrometheusÌý|Security MonkeyÌý|ÌýGaugeÌý|ÌýLet's EncryptÌý|ÌýVisual Studio Code

2016

Adopt

BabelÌý|ÌýGrafana

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Trial

Talisman|ÌýZipkinÌý|WebpackÌý|ÌýOWASP Dependency-Check

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Assess

HashiCorp Vault

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Hold

Jenkins as a deployment pipeline

2017

Trial

Airflow|ÌýBuildkiteÌý|Headless Chrome for front-end testÌý|ÌýServerless Framework

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Assess

spaCyÌý|ÌýYarnÌý|ÌýCypressÌý|ÌýJupyter

2018

Trial

Appium Test Distribution|ÌýHelmÌý|Ìýgit-secretsÌý|ÌýLocalStackÌý|Prettier|ÌýUI dev environmentsÌý|ÌýVisual Studio Live Share

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Assess

ArchUnitÌý|ÌýScout2Ìý|ÌýStanford CoreNLPÌý|ÌýTestCafe

2019

Adopt

Commitizen

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Trial

Elasticsearch LTR|ÌýYocto Project

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Assess

DetektÌý|ÌýKubernetes OperatorsÌý|ÌýTerratestÌý|Ìýasdf-vmÌý|ÌýOpen Policy Agent (OPA)Ìý|ÌýWhat-If Tool

2020

Adopt

Dependency management for JavaScript

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Trial

DVC|ÌýExperiment tracking tools for machine learningÌý|Ìýkind

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Assess

AsyncAPIÌý|ÌýGitpodÌý|tfsec

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