A decade in the making
The technology landscape has undergone monumental upheavals over the past 10 years. Microservices, cloud, containers, NoSQL — almost every aspect of the tech stack has evolved. ThoughtWorks Technology Radar tracked these changes.
When we started, we could not anticipate the Radar's impact on the technology landscape. Today, readers mark their calendars for the highly anticipated twice yearly Technology Radar reports. We hope you continue to enjoy them!
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JavaScript as a first class language | Ruby
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Domain-Specific Languages | Groovy
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Functional languages | Java language end of life | Clojure | F# | HTML 5 | Scala
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Care about languages
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AngularJS and Knockout | Jekyll | Require.js | Sinatra | Twitter Bootstrap
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Functional Java | JavaScript as a platform | Lua
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Backbone.js
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CSS frameworks | Jasmine paired with Node.js
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JavaScript MV* frameworks | Play Framework 2
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Nancy
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Handwritten CSS
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Java 8
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Go language | Hive | ReactiveX | R as Compute Platform
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Elixir | Python 3 | TypeScript | Rust | Spring Boot
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JSF
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Dapper | Fetch | Redux | Enzyme
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Cylon.js | GraphQL | Immutable.js | TensorFlow | ECMAScript 2017 | Vue.js | WebRTC
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AngularJS
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Avro | AssertJ | CSS Grid Layout | CSS Modules | Jest
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Angular 2 | DeepLearning.scala | Kotlin | Spring Cloud | ARKit/ARCore | CSS-in-JS | Gobot | PyTorch | single-spa
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Apollo | MockK
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Flutter | Reactor | troposphere | WebAssembly | Apache Beam | Q# | SAFE stack | WebFlux
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Resilience4j | React Hooks
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Arrow | Chaos Toolkit | Karate | Micronaut | react-testing-library | Taiko | SwiftUI
ThoughtWorks Technology Radar: a personal view
Jeff Foster, Head of Product Engineering at Redgate, explains why he uses the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar to help focus on the tech that matters to him.
Further reading
How programming languages have evolved
Understanding cloud's significance
Programming languages geek out
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