Tech Radar

What is the Tech Radar?

Our Tech Radar is a list of technologies that is used to produce the basic web application ekstrabladet.dk. This includes services and infrastructure components behind the application. The technology list is complemented by an assessment result, called ring assignment. We use tree rings with the following semantics:

• Adopt
  Technologies we have high confidence in to serve our purpose, also in large scale. Technologies with a usage culture in our production environment for ekstrabladet.dk, low risk and recommended to be widely used.
• Trial
  Technologies that we have seen work with success in project work to solve a real problem; first serious usage experience that confirm benefits and can uncover limitations. Trial technologies are slightly more risky; some engineers in our organization walked this path and will share knowledge and experiences.
• Hold
  Technologies not recommended to be used for new projects. Technologies that we think are not (yet) worth to (further) invest in. Hold technologies should not be used for new projects, but usually can be continued for existing projects.

What is the purpose?

The Tech Radar is a tool to inspire and support Engineering teams at Ekstra Bladet 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.

Furthermore we use this Tech Radar as an open window for possible job candidates that are more than welcome to contact us at this email address: eb-techradar@eb.dk

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

This radar was last updated 1/2024