The document discusses Thoughtworks' technology radar, which provides an opinionated perspective on key tech trends. It highlights trends like early warning and recovery in production, the continued growth of JavaScript, and balancing privacy with big data. It also encourages readers to build their own radar to track emerging technologies and changes.

1. thoughtworks.com/radar
M a r c h 2 0 1 4
Brain Leke Betechuoh
@BrianLekeBrian
Rouan Wilsenach
@rouanw

2. COMING UP
▫︎What is the tech radar?
▫︎Key trends
▫︎The JavaScript juggernaut rolls on
▫︎Big data vs privacy
▫︎Build your own radar
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3. WHAT IS THE TECH RADAR?

4. TAB FTF MEETINGS

5. January 2014
TECHNOLOGY RADAR

6. AN
OPINIONATED
PERSPECTIVE

10. KEY TRENDS

11. Early Warning and
Recovery in Production
Merging of Physical
and Digital
The JavaScript
Juggernaut Rolls On
Privacy vs. Big Data

12. EARLY WARNING
AND RECOVERY IN
PRODUCTION
Capturing client-side
JavaScript Errors
Instrument all
the things Structured
logging
Focus on mean
time to recovery
TECHNIQUES

13. EARLY WARNING
AND RECOVERY
IN PRODUCTION
Chaos
Monkey
Logstash &
Graylog2
TOOLS
SnapCI
Sensu
Heavyweight
test tools

14. MERGING OF
PHYSICAL &
DIGITAL
Tangible
interaction
Bridging physical and
digital worlds with
simple hardware
TECHNIQUES

15. MERGING OF
PHYSICAL &
DIGITAL
Low-cost
robotics
PLATFORMS

16. THE JAVASCRIPT
JUGGERNAUT ROLLS ON

17. 17
Atwood's Law:
“any application that can be written in
JavaScript, will eventually be written in
JavaScript”

18. Why?
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19. 19
IT’S EVERYWHERE!

20. YEAH, I’VE SEEN SOME JS
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21. JS ON THE SERVER
21
node.js

22. JSON FOR COMMUNICATION
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23. IS THAT JSON IN MY DATABASE?
23
MongoDB

24. RICH USER EXPERIENCE
24
D3
Client and server
rendering with same code

25. It’s getting easier
25

26. TOOLS
26
Grunt.js
Dependency
management
PhantomJS
resolve
build
test

27. LANGUAGES & FRAMEWORKS
27
CoffeeScript
TypeScript
Yeoman

28. THE GOOD PARTS
28
Grunt.js
CoffeeScript
“That should not be
possible... Don’t do
it.”
Douglas Crockford

29. PRIVACY VS BIG DATA

30. BIG DATA

31. PRIVACY

32. TOOLS
32
Snowplow
Analytics &
Piwik

33. PLATFORMS
33
Hadoop-as-a-
service
Private Clouds

34. TECHNIQUES
34
Datensparsamkeit
Collaborative analytics
and data science

35. TECHNIQUES
35
Store all the things Datensparsamkeit

36. BUILD YOUR OWN RADAR

37. http://radar.bekk.no/techradar

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“Once you started a career in software
development, you signed a pact that
promises you’ll keep up with changes in
that world”
Neal Ford
http://goo.gl/FraQO2
PERSONAL RADAR

39. 39
ORGANISATIONAL RADAR

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41. thoughtworks.com/radar
Q & A

42. thoughtworks.com/radar
M a r c h 2 0 1 4
Brain Leke Betechuoh
@BrianLekeBrian
Rouan Wilsenach
@rouanw