Release Notes

What has changed in each version of the INFO Technology Radar, newest first.

What's new in Version #10

Compared to Version #9, this version bundles all updates we made to the radar during August and September 2026. The main themes are a stronger preference for European, open and sovereign solutions, an agentic-first way of working, and our open source Data & AI stack.

Rings

• The Assess ring has been merged into Trial.

New

• Spec Driven Development (SDD) (Adopt): how we make our agentic-first way of working work in practice.
• Claude Code (Adopt): our preferred agentic coding tool.
• OpenSpec (Adopt) and Spec-Kit (Trial): tools to structure spec-driven development. Pick one per project.
• OpenTelemetry (Adopt): the vendor-neutral standard we instrument our applications with.
• OpenTofu (Adopt): our default tool for Infrastructure as Code, replacing Terraform.
• Argo CD (Trial): GitOps continuous delivery for Kubernetes.
• Apache Iceberg (Adopt) and DuckDB (Adopt): the foundation of our open source lakehouse, with DuckLake (Trial) as a simpler alternative we are piloting.
• LiteLLM (Adopt) and OpenRouter (Adopt): our self-hosted AI gateway and the hosted LLM router behind it.
• EU LLM Routers (Trial): European alternatives to OpenRouter for clients with sovereignty requirements.
• vLLM (Trial): self-hosted inference for open-weight models.
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) (Adopt): the open standard we use to package AI capabilities as reusable servers.
• LLM Tracing and Evals (Trial): making the behaviour of LLM applications visible and testable.
• Dagster / Argo Workflows (Trial): the orchestrators we use for data pipelines and container batch jobs.
• CloudNativePG (Trial): a Kubernetes operator for PostgreSQL, where no suitable managed database is available.
• OpenBao (Trial): the open source fork of HashiCorp Vault, as a central secrets store.

Moved

• European Sovereign Cloud moves from Trial to Adopt. We now generally prefer a European sovereign cloud provider over the US hyperscalers. AWS and Azure remain in Adopt, with AWS our preferred US hyperscaler.
• Databricks moves from Trial to Adopt, next to the open source lakehouse we prefer for our own projects.
• Keycloak moves from Hold back to Adopt as our preferred IAM solution.
• Renovate moves from Hold back to Adopt, in preference to Dependabot.
• GraphQL moves from Adopt to Hold. For new projects we prefer REST.
• GitHub Copilot moves from Adopt to Hold. We prefer Claude Code.
• DORA Metrics moves from Adopt to Trial, while we work out how to use them in an agentic way of working.
• Snyk moves from Assess to Adopt.
• Go moves from Assess to Hold. We are still interested in Go, but it does not have our focus right now.

Updated

• BDD, Domain Driven Design (DDD) and Event-driven Architecture have been rewritten, and BDD and DDD are now linked to Spec Driven Development.
• TypeScript stack and tooling now describes our preferred choices within TypeScript, such as Next.js or TanStack Start, contract-first typed APIs, Drizzle ORM, better-auth, Tailwind CSS with shadcn/ui, Zod, Bun and Biome. Node.js is now covered by it and no longer featured on its own.
• Python now lists our preferred tooling (uv, Ruff and ty), and React Native now describes how we use it with Expo.
• Keycloak now explains when to use it and when to use better-auth or ZITADEL instead.
• GitHub now mentions the European alternatives we are assessing, such as Forgejo, Codeberg and code.overheid.nl.
• Kubernetes, Valkey / Redis (we now prefer Valkey), TanStack Query, Grafana, European Sovereign Cloud and Infrastructure as Code (now including pyinfra) have been updated.

Removed

We reviewed all items and removed the ones that are no longer relevant to our teams: Algolia, Amazon Cognito, Amazon S3, AWS IAM, Axiom, Backstage, Clerk, CockroachDB, Contentful, Cypress, Database as a Service, DigitalOcean, Event Sourcing, GitHub Code Spaces, GitHub Packages, Jamstack, k6, Low-code / no-code development, NestJS, Platform as a Service, Pulumi, React testing library, Rebase and merge as Git merge strategy, Render, Sanity, Serverless, Serverless Framework, Snowflake, Storyblok, Strapi, Terraform (replaced by OpenTofu) and Vercel, as well as a number of older items that were no longer shown on the radar. Next.js, Prisma, Tailwind CSS, tRPC and Turborepo are no longer separate items: where still relevant, they are covered by TypeScript stack and tooling. Figma has moved to the INFO Design radar.