radar.json

[
  {
    "name": "tRPC",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "End-to-end typesafe TypeScript RPC framework that eliminates API contracts and code generation, enabling full-stack type safety from database to UI with minimal boilerplate."
  },
  {
    "name": "Bun",
    "ring": "assess",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "All-in-one JavaScript runtime, bundler, transpiler, and package manager built from scratch in Zig for extreme speed, with Node.js API compatibility and modern tooling integrated into a single executable."
  },
  {
    "name": "Protocol Buffers",
    "ring": "assess",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "Google's language-agnostic binary serialization format enabling efficient, type-safe data exchange with smaller payloads and faster parsing than JSON, particularly valuable for polyglot microservices."
  },
  {
    "name": "AdonisJS",
    "ring": "hold",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "Node.js MVC framework"
  },
  {
    "name": "Express.js",
    "ring": "hold",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Placed in hold as we move towards modern Node.js frameworks with better TypeScript support and comprehensive built-in features."
  },
  {
    "name": "Loopback",
    "ring": "hold",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "Node.js MVC framework"
  },
  {
    "name": "NestJS",
    "ring": "hold",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "In hold while evaluating its Angular-inspired architecture and extensive abstraction layers against our team's needs and simpler alternatives."
  },
  {
    "name": "Next.js",
    "ring": "hold",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Currently in hold while evaluating its fit within our stack. Assessing whether its opinionated approach aligns with our requirements."
  },
  {
    "name": "Python",
    "ring": "hold",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "In hold for backend services as we standardize on TypeScript. Still used for data science, machine learning, and scripting where it excels."
  },
  {
    "name": "Rust",
    "ring": "hold",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "Currently in hold while evaluating for performance-critical services. Weighing steep learning curve against benefits for specific high-performance use cases."
  },
  {
    "name": "Sails.js",
    "ring": "hold",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "Node.js MVC framework"
  },
  {
    "name": "Deno",
    "ring": "trial",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "Modern JavaScript and TypeScript runtime built on V8 with native TypeScript support, secure-by-default execution, built-in tooling, and standard library, addressing Node.js design limitations."
  },
  {
    "name": "Rspack",
    "ring": "trial",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "High-performance Rust-based JavaScript bundler with webpack compatibility, offering significantly faster build speeds while maintaining ecosystem compatibility."
  },
  {
    "name": "WebAssembly",
    "ring": "trial",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "Binary instruction format enabling near-native performance in web browsers and beyond, allowing languages like Rust, C++, and Go to run in web environments with strong security guarantees."
  },
  {
    "name": "Hyperscalers",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "platforms",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) providing comprehensive cloud services supporting Typescript Backends"
  },
  {
    "name": "K8s",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "platforms",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Container orchestration platform under assessment. Evaluating whether its complexity is justified given managed serverless alternatives."
  },
  {
    "name": "Cloudflare",
    "ring": "assess",
    "quadrant": "platforms",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Being assessed for edge computing capabilities and global CDN infrastructure, offering serverless computing at the edge with Workers and Pages."
  },
  {
    "name": "DevOps",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "techniques",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Cultural and technical practice combining software development and IT operations to shorten development cycles and deliver high-quality software continuously."
  },
  {
    "name": "GraphQL",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "techniques",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Our adopted approach for building flexible APIs with strongly-typed schemas, allowing clients to request exactly the data they need."
  },
  {
    "name": "Infrastructure as Code",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "techniques",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Managing and provisioning infrastructure through machine-readable definition files rather than manual configuration, enabling version control, reproducibility, and automation."
  },
  {
    "name": "Microservices",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "techniques",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Our adopted approach for building scalable applications by decomposing them into small, independently deployable services."
  },
  {
    "name": "Oauth2",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "techniques",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Our adopted standard for authorization and authentication delegation, enabling secure access to resources without sharing credentials."
  },
  {
    "name": "Observability",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "techniques",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Critical practice encompassing logging, metrics, and distributed tracing to understand system behavior and health in production."
  },
  {
    "name": "OpenAPI",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "techniques",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "Standard for API specifications"
  },
  {
    "name": "Rest",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "techniques",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Our adopted standard for building HTTP-based APIs with resource-oriented design, standard HTTP methods, and widespread tooling support."
  },
  {
    "name": "Serverless",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "techniques",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Adopted approach for building event-driven applications without managing infrastructure, with automatic scaling and pay-per-use pricing."
  },
  {
    "name": "jsii",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "tools",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "AWS's library that allows code in any language to naturally interact with JavaScript classes, enabling TypeScript libraries to be consumed in multiple programming languages like Python, Java, C#, and Go."
  },
  {
    "name": "PostgreSQL",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "tools",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Our standard choice for relational database workloads, offering JSONB support, full-text search, and excellent support for complex queries and transactions."
  },
  {
    "name": "DevContainer",
    "ring": "asses",
    "quadrant": "tools",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Standardized development environments using Docker containers, ensuring consistency across teams and eliminating environment setup issues."
  },
  {
    "name": "JS TestRunner",
    "ring": "asses",
    "quadrant": "tools",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Jasmine, Jest etc.: There is nodes test runner since v18, that makes this war of frameworks obsolete for the most part"
  },
  {
    "name": "drizzle",
    "ring": "hold",
    "quadrant": "tools",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "ORM library"
  },
  {
    "name": "MongoDB",
    "ring": "hold",
    "quadrant": "tools",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Document-oriented NoSQL database placed in hold. For new projects, consider PostgreSQL with JSONB support for similar flexibility with ACID compliance."
  },
  {
    "name": "PostgREST",
    "ring": "hold",
    "quadrant": "tools",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "Turn PostgreSQL database into REST API without writing code"
  },
  {
    "name": "Sequelize",
    "ring": "hold",
    "quadrant": "tools",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "ORM library"
  },
  {
    "name": "Redis",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "tools & platforms",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "In-memory data structure store serving as cache, message broker, and database, offering microsecond latency, rich data types, and built-in replication for high-performance applications."
  },
  {
    "name": "n8n",
    "ring": "trial",
    "quadrant": "tools & platforms",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "Fair-code workflow automation platform enabling teams to build complex integrations and automations with a visual interface and code flexibility, supporting self-hosting and extensive customization."
  }
]