Zalando技术雷达--对技术选择的规模化贡献

Introduction

简介

In our previous post about Technology Choices at Zalando we spoke about a few problems with scaling technology selection in Tech companies. Since then, we have focused on the remaining categories of the Tech Radar beyond languages and the Tech Radar contribution process. Now, we'd like to reflect on our lessons learned, which you can use when designing technology selection processes.

在我们上一篇关于Zalando的技术选择的文章中，我们谈到了在科技公司中扩展技术选择的一些问题。从那时起，我们专注于技术雷达的其余类别，超越了语言和技术雷达的贡献过程。现在，我们想反思一下我们的经验教训，你可以在设计技术选择流程时使用这些经验。

Scaling contributions

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One of the challenges for us to solve was scaling contributions to the Tech Radar across our 250+ delivery teams. Technologists are often more excited in promoting a new, promising technology than working on guidelines or sharing knowledge about already well-known tech. Such individuals are also essential for continued innovation. On the other hand, companies look for organizational efficiency by ensuring talent mobility across teams supported by a more or less standardized tech stack. This makes it easier to address cross-team dependencies in product delivery by allowing teams to contribute to code bases beyond their area of responsibility. Further, it creates career opportunities for Engineers, who can quickly switch teams and work on a challenging, high impact project. Thus, for technology selection, there is a natural tension between early adopters' vested interest and the needs of the organization they work for. At Zalando, we have created a two-sided contribution model to the Tech Radar:

我们要解决的挑战之一是在我们250多个交付团队中扩大对技术雷达的贡献。技术人员在推广一项新的、有前途的技术时，往往比在准则上的工作或分享已经众所周知的技术的知识更兴奋。这些人也是持续创新的关键。另一方面，公司通过确保由或多或少标准化的技术栈支持的团队间的人才流动来寻求组织效率。这使得在产品交付中更容易解决跨团队的依赖性，允许团队对其职责范围以外的代码库做出贡献。此外，它还为工程师创造了职业机会，他们可以迅速转换团队，在一个具有挑战性的、高影响力的项目上工作。因此，对于技术选择来说，早期采用者的既得利益和他们所工作的组织的需求之间存在着一种自然的紧张关系。在扎兰多，我们为技术雷达创建了一个两方面的贡献模式。

• Anyone in Zalando is encouraged to contribute knowledge about technologies we have on the Tech Radar or suggest ones that are promising to evaluate and play a key role in this p...