10 years of the Techniques quadrant | ThoughtWorks

ThoughtWorks Technology Radar has been tracking changes in the tech landscape for a decade.

Here are some of the most notable blips that have appeared in the quadrants over the years.

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Evolutionary database

Assess

Evolutionary Architecture | Continuous deployment | DevOps

Adopt

Infrastructure as code | Continuous Delivery (CD)

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Automate database deployment

Adopt

Automated deployment pipeline

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Responsive web design

Assess

Experience Design (XD) | Microservices

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Continuous delivery for mobile devices | Blue-green deployment

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Focus on Mean Time to Recovery

Hold

Cloud lift and shift | Separate DevOps team

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Consumer-driven contract testing

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Products over projects | Threat Modeling | Docker for builds | Event Storming | Backend for Frontends

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Data lake | Phoenix Environments

Hold

Microservice envy

Adopt

Pipelines as code

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Lightweight Architecture Decision Records | APIs as a product

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Serverless architecture | Container security scanning |

Micro frontends

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Decoupling secret management from source code |

Architectural fitness functions | Chaos Engineering |

Pipelines for Infrastructure as Code

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Service mesh

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Four key metrics | Observability as code | Secrets as a service

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CD4ML | Security policy as code

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Data mesh

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