Zalando Tech Radar

The Zalando Tech Radar helps our teams make the right technology choices. It reflects the current consensus of the Technology Guild at Zalando and is updated quarterly. It is of course inspired by the ThoughtWorks Tech Radar.

The visualization is based on protovis and was originally developed by Brett Dargan.

Cool, how can I create my own?

Create a google doc with the following columns:

• Technology (e.g. "Hystrix")
• Quadrant (e.g. "Platforms & Infrastructure")
• [optional] Comments (e.g. "lib for fault tolerance")
• Score as a float between -2 and 2 (e.g. "1.8")
• [optional] Number of votes, for internal bookkeeping
• [optional] Consensus, for internal bookkeeping
• Skip — set to true if entry should not be visualized on chart

Then, follow the instructions below:

How to generate a new chart

1. on master google doc, select File > Download as > Tab-separated values and store as data/year-month.tsv
2. run gem install liquid if necessary
3. run ./transform.rb to generate a new radar_data.js
4. open index.html in browser to inspect the result
5. repeat the last two steps until you're happy with the arrangement
6. check everything in
7. merge master branch into gh-pages
8. push gh-pages to publish the new radar

License

Apache 2.0 — same as bdargan/techradar