vol 3

August 2010

what's new

Continuous Deployment, Next-gen test tools, NoSQL, and Facebook as a business platform moved from assess to trial

Visualization & metrics, Emergent Design, Android, and JVM as a platform moved from trial to adopt
Azure moved from hold to assess
18 new items entered the Radar. These are represented as triangles.

Techniques

database based integration
devops
evolutionary architecture
Capabilities describe an organization’s operating model in terms of goals and competencies
This has lead us to prefer service choreography, where independently distributed participants collaborate
automated technical tests
location based services

Tools

cross-platform development
Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
Puppet is a free, open source data center automation tool for managing changes to your production and production-like environments
NoSQL
Intentional Software
POC: 概念验证（英语：Proof of concept，简称POC）是对某些想法的一个较短而不完整的实现，以证明其可行性，示范其原理，其目的是为了验证一些概念或理论。概念验证通常被认为是一个有里程碑意义的实现的原型。

Languages

JavaScript
at the moment we believe F# and Clojure to be better suited to most organizations for assessing than Scala

Platforms

HTML5
RDFa : a mechanism for attaching meaningful vocabularies to HTML content
Atom is an extensible data syndication format with broad tool support in almost all languages
OAuth
iPhone/IPad
GPUs