technology radar

A technology radar is a graphic representation of the technologies that can impact your organization’s strategy. It serves as a company’s go-to tool for informed technology management and strategic decision-making on which technologies to pursue and which ones to avoid. A team can collaboratively evaluate technologies and then visualize their combined assessments on the radar. src: Technology Radar: Your Go-To Tool For Technology Management | ITONICS

Although technology radar are mostly used by companies, I also try to keep one for myself because the purpose of the Radar is in part to help me keep up. It’s an inevitability that there’s constantly new stuff appearing, and I can’t keep up with it all. I keep track of new technologies and decide how to prioritize my investigation.

Legend

• Adopt: Blips that we think you should seriously consider using.
• Trial: Things we think are ready for use, but not as completely proven as those in the Adopt ring.
• Assess: Things to look at closely, but not necessarily trial yet — unless you think they would be a particularly good fit for you.

Tools

Adopt

• 💰 finops infracost
• ✉️ kafka
• 📓 obsidian
• 🔒 FiloSottile/age: A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
• used to encrypt my personal files
• 🔒 Mic92/sops-nix: Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops
• https://samleathers.com/posts/2022-02-11-my-new-network-and-sops.html
• used for passing Atuin encryption key in the Nix store, and then used in the configuration file
• ❄️ astro/deadnix: Scan Nix files for dead code
• ⌨️ sharkdp/numbat: A statically typed programming language for scientific computations with first class support for physical dimensions and units

Trial

• ✉️ apache spark
• ⌨️ lima1909/resty.nvim: An easy to use HTTP-Rest-Client plugin for neovim written in LUA

Assess

• 📓 backstage
• 📓 Antora
• 👀 open telemetry
• 👀 jaeger
• 👀 zipkin
• 👀 grafana tempo
• 👀 grafana loki
• 💰 Kubecost | Kubernetes cost monitoring and management
• ⌨️ Zellij
• ⌨️ felangga/chiko: The ultimate beauty gRPC Client on your Terminal!
• ⌨️ ankitpokhrel/jira-cli: 🔥 Feature-rich interactive Jira command line.

Abandoned

• ❄️ numtide/devshell: Per project developer environments / Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments - devenv
  • useful for projects with multiple contributors that use Nix, too overengineered for a personal use, direnv with some flake is enough for me
• ❄️ Mic92/nix-update: Swiss-knife for updating nix packages.
  • not sure how it works, only need a nix flake update and that’s all
• 📝 nvim-neorg/neorg: Modernity meets insane extensibility. The future of organizing your life in Neovim.
  • there are still some features I need on obsidian, like excalidraw, random article
• 📝 Tabby
  • too slow and takes too much CPU… until I got a better computer or something with a GPU… until then, I should continue using codeium
• ⌨️ mk-5/fjira: The golang fuzzy-find cli jira interface 🚀
  • not support vim keybindings…
• 📝 Zed - Code at the speed of thought
  • looks good, but I would need to configure it, not much different than nvim, nvim is good, nvim is life
• 📓 brianpetro/obsidian-smart-connections: Chat with your notes & see links to related content with AI embeddings. Use local models or 100+ via APIs like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT & Llama 3
  • looks good, but not useful for me after all, as I don’t use any GPU, so LLM in my computer is really slow
• ⌨️ nvim-java/nvim-java: Painless Java in Neovim
  • already implemented my own java configuration

Languages and frameworks

Adopt

• 🐹 golang

Trial

• ⌛ temporal
• ☕ quarkus
• 🚀 GraalVM

Assess

• 🦀 rust
• ⚡ zig
• 💾 SurrealDB | The ultimate multi-model database
• 💾 DoltHub
• 💾 Infinispan
• ☕ JGiven - Java library for unit testing in BDD style

Craft

Adopt

• 🕯️ daily and monthly rituals
• 🎯 quests: have a backlog of tasks to do when I have the time

Trial

Assess

Abandoned

• 📚 Omnivore - Feedly alternative as free and open source
  • https://github.com/omnivore-app/obsidian-omnivore
  • I have too many RSS feeds, so I can easily overwhelmed to check out the articles. I’ll still continue to use Feedly and its feature to mark automatically the articles as “read”.