Sirius Supervision Tech Radar
This page captures the outputs of the 2021 Tech Radar session for the Sirius Supervision team. Focusing on tools we want to trial, use more of, less of, or the same.
The visualisation is auto-generated using this tool, but the raw data is also avilable in the tables below.
Languages
| Trial | More | Less | Same |
|---|---|---|---|
| React | TypeScript | PHP | |
| Go | Laminas | ||
| Python | Angular | ||
| Pact | Protractor | ||
| Doctrine/ORMs |
Platforms
| Trial | More | Less | Same |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consul | Aurora Serverless | Kubernetes | Terraform |
| Vault | ECS | DynamoDB | |
| Timeseries DB |
Tooling
| Trial | More | Less | Same |
|---|---|---|---|
| CodeQL | JetBrains/IntelliJ | Protractor | PHPStorm |
| Cypress | Tuple | Development inside Docker | |
| React/Angular Testing Library | GitHub Actions |
Techniques and Methodologies
| Trial | More | Less | Same |
|---|---|---|---|
| More async ways of working | Continuous Delivery | Fake Kanban | |
| Contract testing | Test Drive Development | ||
| Async standup tools | DevOps | ||
| Domain-driven Design | |||
| Prototypes for frontend |
Frustrations
- Slow setup
- Angular + FE complexity
- Tests in wrong layer
- The time things take
- Inconsistency in codebase
“One wish”
- Split frontend into smaller slices
- Speed up tests (Karma/Screenplay/Behat)
- Run services independently
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