319 Technologies Mapped
Technology Matrix
My opinionated journey through cloud native technologies.
From first glance to full advocacy.
How to Read This Matrix
This matrix represents my personal journey with cloud native technologies. Each stage reflects where a technology sits in my evaluation and adoption process—from first impression to full advocacy. It's opinionated, based on my experience, and constantly evolving.
Watch Something here piqued my interest. I want to learn more and I'm keeping an eye on its development.
Explore I think people should kick the tyres on this. While I can't recommend it yet, I believe it has a lot to teach you.
Learn A technology I think will be useful to you even if you don't adopt it. Learn it and expand your mind.
Adopt Safe to adopt if it fits your needs. I'd confidently use this in real projects.
Advocate I suggest everyone learn and utilise this technology. I'm actively championing it.
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
Provisioning — Infrastructure automation and setup
Orchestration & Management — Container and workload management
Runtime — Container runtimes and execution
Observability and Analysis — Monitoring, logging, and tracing
Platform — Developer platforms and tooling
Wasm — WebAssembly technologies
CNAI — Cloud Native AI and ML
Serverless — Function-as-a-service and event-driven
Not in Active Rotation
Technologies I'm skipping or have moved on from
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Graveyard 14