Vote on topics for future CNCF Technology Radars

[oicheryl]

If you are interested in learning what end users recommend for a cloud native use case, add a comment below or +1 to vote. Examples could be categories from the CNCF Landscape, or industry verticals such as financial services.

Topics will be selected quarterly by the editorial team as the basis for a CNCF Technology Radar.

More information at https://github.com/cncf/enduser-public/blob/master/CNCFTechnologyRadar.pdf

[LawrenceHecht]

Cheryl, I've done this type of project before. Here are a few suggestions:

1. Make sure to have a link to the actual tool/product being evaluated. Make sure to time stamp the assessments.
2. Review the quarterly assessments at a meeting of CNCF end users. This way, you are not assigning a rating only based on the number of votes a technology initially gets.
3. Don't compromise on making this an invite-only activity.

[LawrenceHecht]

And, in response to a tweet from @caniszczyk, I think the results should be made publicly available with the CNCF providing value to its members by only letting its end user community participate in making the ratings. Of course, I don't have insight into the membership sales pitch, so take that idea for what it's worth.

[caniszczyk]

@LawrenceHecht

This is an activity meant for CNCF End Users who are actually running these projects in production and share this information amongst each other in a safe environment where there are no vendors, it's by design we do it this way. It is a membership benefit of becoming an official CNCF End User :)

[oicheryl]

@LawrenceHecht I appreciate the comments!

1.Make sure to have a link to the actual tool/product being evaluated. Make sure to time stamp the assessments.

+1, it's definitely a point in time exercise.

Review the quarterly assessments at a meeting of CNCF end users. This way, you are not assigning a rating only based on the number of votes a technology initially gets.

The CNCF end users review the draft before it is released. Each radar will feature a different set of projects depending on the use case, so each technology will be assessed anew each time.

Don't compromise on making this an invite-only activity.

Also +1. I've already had people ask how they can get their project on the radar.

I think the results should be made publicly available with the CNCF providing value to its members by only letting its end user community participate in making the ratings.

Some of the end users don't have legal/PR permission to publicly state what they use, hence CNCF can publish only aggregrated and anonymized results.

[travis-sobeck]

I like the content, but PDFs are not a useful output medium for this kind of thing (imho).

[oicheryl]

@travis-sobeck you mean the graphic? What don't you like about it?

[travis-sobeck]

@oicheryl The problem with a PDF is that it's not interactive. If I'm looking at a graphic with data points, I want to be able to click on the data points to see the source, think of a Grafana graph (or anything similar). Or at a minimum, a link to a specific line on a spreadsheet/webpage with the data. Which is the problem with a PDF, its just one monolithic thing. I want to send a link to someone else to a specific piece of info, not the whole monolithic thing.
Lastly, a pdf of a spreadsheet is again not interactive. Give people read access to the anonymized data, even if its just json/csv or google spreadsheet.

[oicheryl]

@travis-sobeck Got it, I'd absolutely love to make it more interactive. As the very first tech radar it's intentionally a bare bones MVP, but we can add all sorts of bells and whistles over time.

I really want to make this a useful resource for the wider community, so very happy to get the feedback and improve!

[travis-sobeck]

@oicheryl Yeah, that's fair.

[povilasv]

I would be interested to know what end users recommend for monitoring solutions :)

[gadinaor]

@oicheryl very nice and useful initiative

Would be great to see this for:

• Security
• Monitoring

[KellyGriffin]

Great insight and very useful.

Voting for future ideas:

• Security
• Monitoring / Visbility

[jcwinchell]

Love the concept! Flux was buried in my long list of things to check out and this moved it up towards the top.
I'd like to see radars for:

• security
• service mesh

[oicheryl]

@povilasv @gadinaor @KellyGriffin @jcwinchell I've noted your votes - please keep them coming!

[cpretzer]

+1 for:

• Service Mesh
• Observability (Monitoring, Visibility, and the like)