Zalando的技术选择--更新我们的技术雷达程序
Challenges with our Tech Radar
我们的技术雷达所面临的挑战
The Zalando Tech Radar is modelled after the Thoughtworks Technology Radar and includes a ring-based scoring for a certain technology/framework along with supplementary information about pros, cons, restrictions, usage, and lessons learned at Zalando available as a knowledge base for our teams. Since publishing, the approach and visualization engine has been used by others and also showcased at conferences as an example of how tech companies manage their technology choices.
Zalando技术雷达是以Thoughtworks技术雷达为蓝本，包括对某项技术/框架的环形评分，以及关于Zalando的优点、缺点、限制、使用和经验教训的补充信息，可作为我们团队的知识库。自发布以来，该方法和可视化引擎已被其他公司使用，并在会议上作为科技公司如何管理其技术选择的例子进行了展示。
Our initial concept of the Tech Radar suffered from a series of problems, which we have observed in the Engineering Community while maintaining the Tech Radar:
我们最初的技术雷达概念受到了一系列问题的影响，我们在维护技术雷达的同时，也在工程界观察到这些问题。
- The ring change criteria were too high level without being specific for technology types (e.g. programming languages, data stores) or context (e.g. backend, data science, mobile), its support by our infrastructure and impact to engineering usage. They didn’t allow for transparent, objective, and recurring rescoring of the Tech Radar nor for clear guidance for our engineers on how to select or suggest technologies to evaluate.
- 环形变化标准太高，没有具体的技术类型（如编程语言、数据存储）或背景（如后端、数据科学、移动）、我们的基础设施支持和对工程使用的影响。他们不允许对技术雷达进行透明、客观和经常性的重新评分，也不允许明确指导我们的工程师如何选择或建议评估的技术。
- The Tech Radar has been easy to ignore due to lack of a formal process and oftentimes delivery teams have been making key technology choices in isolation without consulting them with the guild maintaining the Tech Radar. Only after technologies were already in production, radar entries and ring changes were proposed instead of having followed the Tech Radar cycle. This led to a disconnect between the ring assignments and factual usage across teams.
- 由于缺乏正式的程序，技术雷达很容易被忽视，而且很多时候，交付团队一直在孤立地做出关键的技术选择，而没有与维护技术雷达的公会协商。只有在技术已经投入生产后，才会提出雷达条目和环形变化，而不是按照技术雷达的周期进行。这导致了环形分配和各团队实际使用情况之间的脱节。
- The Tech Radar relied on volun...