thoughtworks tech radar jan 2014

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Brain Leke Betechuoh @BrianLekeBrian

Rouan Wilsenach @rouanw

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WHAT IS THE TECH RADAR?

TAB FTF MEETINGS

January 2014

TECHNOLOGY RADAR

AN OPINIONATED PERSPECTIVE

KEY TRENDS

Early Warning and Recovery in Production

Merging of Physical and Digital

The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On

Privacy vs. Big Data

EARLY WARNING AND RECOVERY IN PRODUCTION

Capturing client-side JavaScript Errors

Instrument all the things Structured

logging

Focus on mean time to recovery

TECHNIQUES

EARLY WARNING AND RECOVERY

IN PRODUCTION

Chaos Monkey

Logstash & Graylog2

TOOLS

SnapCI

Sensu

Heavyweight test tools

MERGING OF PHYSICAL & DIGITAL

Tangible interaction

Bridging physical and digital worlds with simple hardware

TECHNIQUES

MERGING OF PHYSICAL & DIGITAL

Low-cost robotics

PLATFORMS

THE JAVASCRIPT JUGGERNAUT ROLLS ON

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Atwood's Law:

“any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in

JavaScript”

Why?

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IT’S EVERYWHERE!

YEAH, I’VE SEEN SOME JS

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JS ON THE SERVER

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node.js

JSON FOR COMMUNICATION

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IS THAT JSON IN MY DATABASE?

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MongoDB

RICH USER EXPERIENCE

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D3

Client and server rendering with same code

It’s getting easier

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TOOLS

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Grunt.js

Dependency management

PhantomJS

resolve

build

test

LANGUAGES & FRAMEWORKS

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CoffeeScript

TypeScript

Yeoman

THE GOOD PARTS

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Grunt.js

CoffeeScript

“That should not be possible... Don’t do

it.”

Douglas Crockford

PRIVACY VS BIG DATA

BIG DATA

PRIVACY

TOOLS

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Snowplow Analytics &

Piwik

PLATFORMS

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Hadoop-as-a-service

Private Clouds

TECHNIQUES

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Datensparsamkeit

Collaborative analytics and data science

TECHNIQUES

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Store all the things Datensparsamkeit

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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

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PERSONAL RADAR

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Brain Leke Betechuoh @BrianLekeBrian

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