Inspired by Thoughworks Tech Radar
Local
| Name | Notes | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| allsky | star trails using Rasberry Pi | 👀 |
| anki | flash cards | 🔍 |
| astral/ruff | fast py linter, formatter | 👀 |
| astral/uv | fast py package manager | 👀 |
| draw.io | diagrams, achitectures | ✅ |
| duplicati | backups | 👀 |
| excalidraw | diagrams | 🔍 |
| ghostty | Fancy terminal | 👀 |
| gofr | golang microservice framework | 👀 |
| hugo | generate templated static sites | ✅ |
| k9s | k8slens in terminal | ✅ |
| logseq | outliner, only bullets, no cloud | 👀 |
| mermaid | diagrams as code | ✅ |
| mob | peer programming, and git handover | 👀 |
| obsidian | notes app, not for me | 🛑 |
| rectangleapp | arrange windows | ✅ |
| syncthing | backups, file sync | 👀 |
| vite | generate custom static sites | ✅ |
| vscode | IDE | ✅ |
| vscode/ext/dev-containers | ✅ | |
| vscode/ext/gitlens | ✅ | |
| brew | macos pkg manager | ✅ |
Workloads
| Name | Notes | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| alertmanager | alerting | ✅ |
| atlasgo | manage db schemas as code | 🔍 |
| argo/argocd | gitops k8s cd | ✅ |
| argo/events | for event driven arch | ✅ |
| argo/workflows | workflow orchestration | ✅ |
| atlantis | decorate terraform pull-requests | 👀 |
| authentik | open-source Identity Provider | 👀 |
| backstage | internal developer platform | 🔍 |
| cartography | visualize cloud infrastructure | 🔍 |
| cloud-custodian | rules engine | 👀 |
| cloudevents | cloud events | 🔍 |
| cortex | horizontally scalable prometheus storage | 👀 |
| crossplane | manage infrastructure as native k8s objects | 🔍 |
| dapr | event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications | 👀 |
| grafana | visualize metrics | ✅ |
| harbor | open source cloud native registry, OCI only | ✅ |
| harness | internal developer platform | 👀 |
| hashicorp/terraform | infrastructure as code | ✋ |
| hashicorp/vault | secrets management | ✋ |
| infracost | surface cloud cost in cicd pipelines | 👀 |
| istio | service mesh | ✅ |
| juicefs | posix file system backed by redis and s3 | 👀 |
| k8sgpt | chatgpt for k8s | 🔍 |
| kafka | event streaming | 🔍 |
| keda | event driven auto-sclaing | 👀 |
| keycloak | open-source identity and access management | 👀 |
| komiser | visualize cloud infrastructure | ✅ |
| koperator | useful to manage [kafka] | 🔍 |
| kro | manage any group of resources as one unit | 👀 |
| kyverno | policies for k8s cluster | 👀 |
| linkerd2 | service mesh | 👀 |
| loki | logs | ✅ |
| mimir | horizontally scalable prometheus storage | 👀 |
| minio | s3 compatible object store | ✅ |
| hashicorp/nomad | simple orchestrator | 🔍 |
| opa-gatekeeper | k8s admission controller | ✅ |
| open-telemetry | 🔍 | |
| openllmetry | monitor your LLM app | 👀 |
| prefect | workflow orchestration | 🛑 |
| prometheus | tsdb | ✅ |
| ray | scale mlops | 👀 |
| rook | storage orchestrator - file, block, object | 👀 |
| sentry | Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring | 🔍 |
| slurm | workflow orchestration | 👀 |
| thanos | scalable prometheus storage | ✅ |
| traefik | proxy | 👀 |
| volcano | k8s batch workloads | 👀 |
References
| Icon | Status |
|---|---|
| 🔍 | bookmark |
| 👀 | try |
| ✅ | adopt |
| ✋ | contain, retire |
| 🛑 | avoid |