Artsy’s Technology Choices evaluation process
This is a nice way to evaluate new technology options, from Artsy:
We want to accomplish a lot with a lean team, which means we must choose stable technologies. However, we also want to adopt best-of-breed technologies or best-suited tools, which may need work or still be evolving. We’ve borrowed from ThoughtWorks’ Radar to define the following stages for evaluating, adopting, and retiring technologies:
- Adopt: Reasonable defaults for most work. These choices have been exercised successfully in production at Artsy and there is a critical mass of engineers comfortable working with them.
- Trial: These technologies are being evaluated in limited production circumstances. We don’t have enough production experience to recommend them for high-risk or business-critical use cases, but they may be worth consideration if your project seems like a fit.
- Assess: Technologies we are interested in and maybe even built proofs-of-concept for, but haven’t yet trialed in production.
- Hold: Based on our experience, these technologies should be avoided. We’ve found them to be flawed, immature, or simply supplanted by better alternatives. In some cases these remain in legacy production uses, but we should take every opportunity to retire or migrate away.
(Via Lar Van Der Jagt on the Last Week In AWS slack instance)
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