My personal Technology Radar

IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ IDEA, the one and only IDE you will ever need!

Playwright Industry standard for end-to-end testing, offering superior reliability and features compared to alternatives

Testcontainers Essential for modern integration testing, especially in microservices environments

Storybook De facto standard for component development and documentation in modern frontend development. Alternative: Histoire for Vue.js project

Insomnia Solid API development tool, though consider if your team needs more enterprise features. Alternative: Postman, Hoppscotch (open source)

Pitest : Real world mutation testing PIT is a state of the art mutation testing system, providing gold standard test coverage for Java and the jvm. Its fast, scalable and integrates with modern test and build tooling. Alternative: Stryker for JavaScript/TypeScript projects

infinitest Useful for continuous testing, but evaluate if it fits your development workflow. Alternative: Modern IDEs' built-in test runners, Jest watch mode

Selenium While still used, newer tools like Playwright offer better developer experience. Alternative: Cypress (though Playwright is generally preferred now)

PowerMock Use with caution, prefer proper dependency injection and design patterns. Alternative: Mockito, Jest, Vitest

Cypress Mature and widely adopted for frontend testing, though consider Playwright for new projects

SQL Fiddle Better alternatives exist for database experimentation. Alternative: DB Fiddle, PostgreSQL Playground

Balsamiq mockups More modern UI/UX design tools available now. Alternative: Figma, Penpot (open source)

Dependency-Track Essential for modern software supply chain security. Alternative: Snyk, Mend (commercial)

OWASP CycloneDX Critical for software supply chain risk management. Alternative: SPDX (though both can be used together)

scs-architecture.org Valuable pattern for microservices organization

Backstage Leading solution for developer portals and internal developer platforms. Alternative: Port (commercial)

Architecture Antipatterns Valuable knowledge base, but verify against current best practices

Resource-Oriented Client Architecture Solid principles for frontend architecture. Alternative: Micro-frontends, Module Federation

arc42: Ressourcen für Softwarearchitekten Good foundation but consider more modern documentation approaches. Alternative: C4 model, ADR (Architecture Decision Records)

modeling-languages.com Useful resource but verify current relevance. Alternative: Martin Fowler’s blog, AWS/Azure architecture centers

caminao.wordpress.com Outdated content. Alternative: InfoQ, Martin Fowler’s blog

CodeCity Obsolete visualization approach. Alternative: SonarQube, CodeScene

Grafana Industry standard for monitoring and visualization

JSON Crack Modern tool for JSON data visualization and analysis

PlotJuggler Powerful tool for time series visualization. Alternative: Chronograf, Prometheus+Grafana

D3.js Still the gold standard for custom data visualization. Alternative: Chart.js, Observable Plot

Desmos Excellent for mathematical visualization, though evaluate needs

Lime Important for ML model explainability

FlywayDB Tool to manage database schema and content

GNU Octave Consider Python or Julia ecosystem alternatives

Masonry Still useful but evaluate modern CSS Grid/Flexbox first

Liquibase Consider FlywayDB as an alternative

Hexels Better alternatives exist for grid-based art. Alternative: Figma, Illustrator

Sculpt GL Limited maintenance, better alternatives exist. Alternative: Blender, Three.js editor

Helm Essential tool for Kubernetes deployments. Alternative: Kustomize (for simpler needs)

Kustomize Important for Kubernetes configuration management. Alternative: Helm (for complex applications)

Apache Kafka Standard for event streaming platforms

Keycloak Leading open-source IAM solution

Varnish HTTP Cache Still relevant for HTTP caching needs

Resilience4j Modern fault tolerance library for Java

Camunda BPMN / DMN Consider cloud-native workflow alternatives

Togglz Evaluate against modern feature flag services. Alternative: LaunchDarkly, Split.io

Hazelcast IMDG Evaluate against cloud-native alternatives. Alternative: Redis, Apache Ignite

Edge Side Includes Better alternatives for micro-frontends exist. Alternative: Micro-frontends, Module Federation

JBoss Windup Limited relevance in modern cloud environments. Alternative: Cloud native migration tools

Hugo Leading static site generator. Alternative: Next.js, Astro

Asciidoctor Toolchain for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML5, DocBook 5 (or 4.5) and other formats.

Red Blob Games A wonderful resource about computer algorithms involved in game programming

Jake Archibald: The offline cookbook Jake Archibald writes about offline Web Applications

Addy Osmani; JavaScript Design Patterns An eBook about Design Patterns with JavaScript

The Pragmatic Bookshelf The Pragmatic Bookshelf, the source of knowledge

Angular Mature framework with strong enterprise adoption. Alternative: React, Vue.js, Svelte

Gradle Build Tool Standard build tool for Java ecosystem. Alternative: Maven, Bazel

PostCSS A tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript. Alternative: Tailwind CSS, CSS Modules

Lerna Evaluate against newer monorepo tools

AspectJ Still relevant for specific use cases. Alternative: Spring AOP, Decorator pattern

Kaitai Struct A new way to develop parsers for binary structures.

The Concise Binary Object Representation Consider Avro as an alternative

LessCSS Consider modern CSS features first. Alternative: Sass, Tailwind CSS

QueryDSL Evaluate against modern alternatives

JUEL Limited use cases in modern development. Alternative: Native template literals, Expression parsers

MyFaces CODI Outdated JSF extension. Alternative: Modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js)

PrettyFaces Outdated URL handling for JSF. Alternative: Modern routing libraries (React Router, Vue Router)

arquillian.org Arquillian is framework to write tests for JEE applications.

Project Mogwai Better alternatives are available, but I still love this project