Tech Radar

Based on the Zalando Tech-Radar.

Available at http://maroda.github.io/radar.

This is my personal radar, which I have used as a framework for developing them elsewhere.

Since this is being hosted by Github Pages, it uses the optional /docs/ directory to store the content.

Local Dev

The root directory (with this README) can use yarn to serve the page for local development (it is configured to serve /docs/):

1. brew install node yarn
2. yarn
3. yarn start

The Radar will be available at http://localhost:3000.

The radar processor

Build: go build Usage: ./radar -list <structured_data>.csv

This takes a CSV and spits out json for use with the radar.

The contents are for an array inside docs/config.json. See the discussion below for setting it up.

The CSV file

The Subject column is whatever name you want to use.

The Category column matters, it should be one of four things:

1. Code
2. Data
3. Platform
4. Tool

The Ring column matters, it should be one of four things:

1. Adopt
2. Trial
3. Assess
4. Hold

The Moved column is not automated.

Example CSV:

Subject,Cat,Ring,Moved
1Password,Platform,Adopt,0
ArgoCD,Code,Adopt,0
Elixir,Code,Hold,0

Full ETL Command

This was originally written before a config file was used for the radar. TODO: Make the radar command write out the entire config.json.

Right now it does not, so there's a skeleton framework:

First translate the CSV, change it all to lowercase, and chop off that nasty final comma:

./radar -list WMTRad-v1.csv | awk '{print tolower($0)}' | sed '$ s/.$//' > radout.json

Next cat the head and tail of the array on each end:

cat head.txt radout.json tail.txt > docs/config.json

That should get it all set, the static Tech Radar is in place and ready to view.