Technology Strategy Radar
An opinionated mapping of the cloud-native landscape. Derived from direct experience building and scaling production platforms, focused on reliability, security, and developer velocity.
[ RING: ADOPT ]
The undisputed API of infrastructure. Managed control planes provide the best balance of reliability and flexibility for containerized microservices.
Declarative state reconciliation is non-negotiable for SRE. ArgoCD ensures environment consistency and enables instant, high-confidence rollbacks.
Foundational for SLI/SLO tracking. The ecosystem's maturity allows for deep introspection via custom exporters and high-fidelity alerting.
[ RING: TRIAL ]
Superior to Cluster Autoscaler for node provisioning speed and right-sizing. Testing heavily in dev/staging environments to optimize compute cost and scaling latency.
Enabling kernel-level observability and high-performance networking. Exploring Cilium's Hubble for deep service-mesh-like visibility without the sidecar overhead.
[ RING: ASSESS ]
Assessing MCP for standardizing how AI agents interact with infrastructure logs and metrics. High potential for automating L1 incident triage.
Evaluating the shift from Terraform to Kubernetes-native resource management. Potential to simplify internal developer platforms (IDPs).
[ RING: HOLD ]
"ClickOps" generates technical debt and configuration drift. All infrastructure must be defined in code (IaC) and version controlled.
Transitioning away from static Jenkins controllers towards ephemeral GitHub Actions runners and ArgoCD for better scalability and security posture.