Radars

Technology Radars

Thoughtworks

Thoughtworks have an excellent set of artifacts called the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar.

The Technology Radar is a snapshot of tools, techniques, platforms, languages and frameworks based on the practical experiences of Thoughtworkers around the world. Published twice a year, it provides insights on how the world builds software today. Use it to identify and evaluate what’s important to you.

They also maintain an open-source project called thoughtworks/build-your-own-radar, which allows anyone to create their own technology radar using JSON, CSV or Google Sheet documents.

My twist

I have extended the Thoughtworks Technology Radar offerings in two primary ways.

setchy/thoughtworks-tech-radar-volumes

github.com/setchy/thoughtworks-tech-radar-volumes

An automated process to create radar datasets for ALL Thoughtworks publications in CSV, JSON and Google Sheets formats, including blip movement data for all volumes.

setchy/build-your-own-radar@deploy/combined-enhancements

github.com/setchy/build-your-own-radar

A fork of thoughtworks/build-your-own-radar, hosted at radar.setchy.io, which incorporates all of my pending upstream enhancements.

These enhancements uplift the BYOR functionality to match that of the official thoughtworks radar, such as:

Alphabetic blip sorting
Deep linking to blips and quadrants
Fix for google tag manager
Update all dependencies, resolving vulnerabilities in libraries
VS Code on-save settings configuration fix
Cleanup gitignore file

These enhancements are now available in v1.1.6:

Support for blip movement data via a new dataset column status (new, no change, moved in, moved out)
Consistent blip draw positions by blip number

Extended Technology Radars

Below are links to each of the Thoughtworks Technology Radars using this enhanced BYOR product.

All Volumes2010 – 2026