/tech-radar

Overview of technologies mapped according to our level of adoption

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Dyne.org Tech Radar

At Dyne.org, we maintain a public Tech Radar to help our community align on technology choices.

This repository contains the code to generate the visualization: radar.js (based on d3.js v4). Feel free to use and adapt it for your own purposes.

This visualization is a fork of Zalando's tech radar which is inspired by the original Thoughtworks tech radar. We share the form of the first, but not the contents of any of them.

Usage

  1. include d3.js and radar.js:
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://zalando.github.io/tech-radar/release/radar-0.5.js"></script>
  1. insert an empty svg tag:
<svg id="radar"></svg>
  1. configure the radar visualization:
radar_visualization({
  svg_id: "radar",
  width: 1450,
  height: 1000,
  colors: {
    background: "#fff",
    grid: "#bbb",
    inactive: "#ddd"
  },
  title: "My Radar",
  quadrants: [
    { name: "Bottom Right" },
    { name: "Bottom Left" },
    { name: "Top Left" },
    { name: "Top Right" }
  ],
  rings: [
    { name: "INNER",  color: "#93c47d" },
    { name: "SECOND", color: "#b7e1cd" },
    { name: "THIRD",  color: "#fce8b2" },
    { name: "OUTER",  color: "#f4c7c3" }
  ],
  print_layout: true,
  entries: [
   {
      label: "Some Entry",
      quadrant: 3,          // 0,1,2,3 (counting clockwise, starting from bottom right)
      ring: 2,              // 0,1,2,3 (starting from inside)
      moved: -1             // -1 = moved out (triangle pointing down)
                            //  0 = not moved (circle)
                            //  1 = moved in  (triangle pointing up)
   },
    // ...
  ]
});

Entries are positioned automatically so that they don't overlap.

As a working example, you can check out docs/index.html — the source of our public Tech Radar.

Local Development

  1. install dependencies with yarn (or npm):
yarn
  1. start local dev server:
yarn start
  1. your default browser should automatically open and show the url
http://localhost:3000/

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2019 Dyne.org foundation
Copyright (c) 2017 Zalando SE

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