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Thoughtworks Technology Radar

Thoughtworks Technology Radar is a twice-yearly industry-guidance publication from the global consultancy Thoughtworks that catalogues tools, techniques, platforms, and languages/frameworks against four ring categories: Adopt, Trial, Assess, Hold.

Why this matters on the wiki

The Technology Radar is one of the most-cited external references in internal engineering advocacy — engineering leaders use it to justify platform choices to finance, to persuade teams to pick a standard across a portfolio, or to signal which direction the industry is moving on a specific tooling question. A ring assignment in the Radar is often the difference between "we'll evaluate this" and "we'll actively migrate."

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  • sources/2026-04-30-databricks-backstage-with-lakebase — canonical wiki introduction. Thoughtworks identifies its Radar as the endorsement behind systems/backstage as an IDP foundation: "Thoughtworks has been a consistent advocate for Backstage as an IDP foundation through the Technology Radar, so along with being very familiar with the tool, we chose Backstage for this POC..." This is the canonical wiki datum that a Technology Radar endorsement can drive real architectural POCs (swapping a state-heavy IDP's backing database to prove out a serverless-Postgres substrate).
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