Technology Radar

In the beginning of April Thoughtworks published a new version of Technology Radar with the latest industry trends.

Interesting points:

✏️ AI. There is a significant growth of AI agentic approach in technologies and tools, but all of them still work in a supervised fashion helping developers to automate the routine. No surprises there.

✏️ Architecture Advice Process. Architecture decision process moves to decentralized approach where anyone can make any architectural decision getting advice from the people with the relevant expertise. The approach is based on Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and advisory forum practices. I made short ADR overview there.

✏️ OpenTelemetry Adoption. Most popular tools (e.g. Loki, Alloy, Tempo) in observability stack added OpenTelemetry native support.

✏️ Observability & ML Integration. Major monitoring platforms embedded machine learning for anomaly detection, alert correlation and root-cause analysis.

✏️ Data Product Thinking. In extended AI adoption many teams started treating data as a product with clear ownership, quality standards, and focus on customer needs. Data catalogs like DataHub, Collibra, Atlan or Informatica become more popular.

✏️ Gitlab CI\CD was moved to adopted state.

Of course, there are much more items in the report, so if you're interested I recommend to check and find trends that are relevant to your tech stack.

Since this post is about trends, I'll share one more helpful tool - StackShare. It shows the tech stacks used by specific companies, and how wide a particular technology is adopted across different companies.

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