Tech Radar

What Straw Hat Team reaches for by default, what we are still trying out, and what we would rather nobody started something new with.

The radar is a view over decisions, not a replacement for them. A blip says where something sits today; the ADRs say why. Read how it works before arguing about a ring.

• new in this edition
• moved in
• moved out
• no change

Edition 2026.3 · 2026-10-08

Techniques

Ways of working, practices, and design approaches.

Adopt

• 1. Architecture Decision Records
• 2. Diátaxis Documentation Structure
• 3. Human-Readable IDs
• 4. Structured URLs

Trial

• 5. CloudEvents

Tools

Software we run to build, verify, or operate things.

Adopt

• 6. GitHub Actions
• 7. GitHub artifact attestationsnew in this edition
• 8. mise
• 9. OpenTofu
• 10. pnpm
• 11. release-pleasenew in this edition
• 12. SOPS

Trial

• 13. jactionlintnew in this edition
• 14. Mermaid
• 15. packslipnew in this edition
• 16. Renovatenew in this edition
• 17. VitePress

Assess

• 18. zizmornew in this edition

Hold

• 19. actionlintnew in this edition
• 20. Dependabotnew in this edition
• 21. direnv
• 22. EJSON
• 23. SLSA GitHub generatornew in this edition
• 24. Task
• 25. Terraform

Platforms

Things we build on top of, such as runtimes, infrastructure, and hosted services.

Adopt

• 26. OpenTelemetry

Trial

• 27. GitHub Pages

Languages & Frameworks

Programming languages and the libraries we write code against.

Adopt

• 28. Rustnew in this edition
• 29. Tailwind CSS

Trial

• 30. Zod

Assess

• 31. Jiffnew in this edition

Hold

• 32. Chrononew in this edition
• 33. Elixirmoved out
• 34. Gonew in this edition