342 technologies mapped
Technology Matrix
Compare cloud native tools by adoption stage, confidence, and trajectory.
Stage definitions
Stages are practical recommendations, not universal truth. Use them as a starting point for evaluation.
Skip Not recommended here.
Watch Worth tracking, not ready to recommend.
Explore Worth testing in a non-critical project.
Learn Useful to understand, even if you never adopt it.
Adopt Safe to use when it fits the problem.
Advocate Strong default or important technology to learn.
Graveyard Retired, abandoned, or no longer relevant.
Watch On my radar
Explore Worth a look
Learn Investing time
Adopt Production ready
Advocate Championing
App Definition and Development Build, package, and deploy applications 92
Provisioning Infrastructure automation and setup 84
Orchestration & Management Container and workload management 57
Runtime Container runtimes and execution 41
Observability and Analysis Monitoring, logging, and tracing 38
Platform Developer platforms and tooling 11
Wasm WebAssembly technologies 8
CNAI Cloud Native AI and ML 7
Serverless Function-as-a-service and event-driven 3
Uncategorized Not yet assigned a landscape category 1
Skipped and retired
Technologies marked skip or no longer active.
Skip 169
Graveyard 17