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Trend radar: Future-oriented with the InnoRadar web

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Keeping an overview

In hardly any other industry do the tools and environments used change as quickly and dramatically as in IT. Not a week goes by without new libraries, frameworks or "just" updates to existing tools that bring with them a whole range of new features. For companies, this means increased pressure to keep up with the times, adapt and never miss the boat for the next big thing. This also poses considerable problems for developers: How do we maintain an overview so that we can also provide our customers with good advice?

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Up to date

This is precisely why various companies now produce so-called trend reports. These include the Technology Radar from Thoughtworks, which has kindly made the code for its visualization available as open source and which we have used as the basis for our own radar.

We at MaibornWolff also have many people in the company who try out new technologies, gain experience, read and write articles and books or have just heard about something new. We created the InnoRadar web to make this knowledge available to everyone. It is an easy way to get a quick overview of what the web technology landscape currently looks like from our point of view.

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The Architecture Quadrant of the InnoRadar Web (left) and the Protocols and APIs Quadrant of the InnoRadar Web (right)

Categorization: Four quadrants

There are four quadrants in the InnoRadar for categorization: protocols and APIs, architecture, languages and frameworks, and technologies. Within the quadrants, there are also four rings that help to correctly categorize a technology in terms of its stage of development:

  • Adopt:
    Next.js, for example, is a technology that can definitely be used productively in a project and that our developers should be prepared for.
  • Trial:
    Remix can be tried out and we can gain initial experience with it.
  • Assess:
    We are still cautious about CSS Houdini, but are watching developments with great interest.
  • Hold:
    We use this ring for technologies that should no longer be used or where a migration to an alternative would be recommended.
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Always up to date

To keep our radar up to date, we regularly survey our colleagues and gather their feedback. Each quarter, we record the changes within the radar in a blog article.

Other departments at MaibornWolff have also shown interest in creating similar trend radars on other topics. In the dense fog of hypes and trends, the InnoRadar web enables unerring navigation.

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