Tech Radar
Visualizing our technology choices to inspire and support engineering teams at LambdaWorks to pick the best technologies for new projects.
What is the Tech Radar?
The LambdaWorks Tech Radar is a curated list of technologies, complemented by an assessment result called a ring assignment.
We evaluate and categorize technologies to ensure high product quality, stable operations, and unified technology stacks.
What is the purpose?
The Tech Radar inspires and supports engineering teams at LambdaWorks to choose the best technologies for new projects.
It provides a platform to share knowledge and experience, reflect on past technology decisions, and continuously evolve our agency's technology landscape.
Ring Assignments & Semantics
We classify technologies into six distinct rings, each defining a specific level of adoption and risk:
Technologies we have high confidence in to serve our purpose, also at a large scale. Low-risk and recommended to be widely used.
Technologies that we believe should be adopted in the future. We have started incorporating them, but need more serious usage experience before moving to Adopt.
Technologies that could be of value to us in the future, currently in a research and experimentation phase to assess if confidence is high enough to apply them on projects.
Technologies adopted in the past for existing projects. We plan to keep using them on those projects, but prefer not applying them to new projects.
Technologies adopted in the past for existing projects, but we have decided to gradually reduce dependency and migrate away from them.
Technologies we have concluded not to adopt based on assessments, or ones that we have adopted in the past and have successfully phased out entirely.
How do we maintain it?
Assignment of technologies to rings is the outcome of ring change proposals, which are discussed and voted on. The Tech Radar is open for contributions from all engineering teams at LambdaWorks. It depends on their active participation to share lessons learned, pitfalls, and contribute to good practices for using these technologies.