Thoughtworks Technology Radar, Sam Newman 25th January 2012 sam newman

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TECHNOLOGY RADAR Sam Newman

25th january 2012

We’re hiring...

Not Me

Not This One Either

TECHNOLOGYRADARtwice yearly report from the technical advisory board (TAB)

Highly opinionated, reflecting the views of the members of the TAB

platforms

techniques

tools

languagesho

ldho

ldassess

assess

trialtrial

adop

tad

opt

Rings

•HOLD

•proceed with caution!

• If you’re already doing it, you might want to stop...

• And if you are about to start, you might want to reconsider

Rings

•ASSESS

•worth exploring to understand how it can affect your company

• This is where you want to be exploring if you are looking for a competitive edge

Rings

•TRIAL

•worth pursuing to improve your organisations capabilities

• Use these technologies where you can handle the risk

•ADOPT

•we strongly feel the industry should be adopting these items

• If you aren’t using these things (in the right context), we will tease you about it at the pub

TECHNIQUES

trial embedded microcontainers

out of container testing

TOOLSpolygot persistence

maven

hold assess

PLATFORMS

linux containers

domain specific pass

asse

ss

LANGUAGES

tria

l

scala

clojure

asse

ss

THANKS!

Sam Newman@samnewman

info@burnssheehan.co.uk020 3206 1900