Tools Thoughtworks Technology Radar 52. Micrometer Trial Micrometer is a platform-agnostic library for metrics instrumentation on the JVM that supports Graphite, New Relic, CloudWatch and many other integrations. We’ve found that Micrometer has benefited both library authors and teams: library authors can include metrics instrumentation code in their libraries without needing to support each and every metrics system that their users are using; and teams can support many different metrics on back-end registries which enables organizations to collect metrics in a consistent way. 53. NUKE Trial NUKE is a build system for .NET and an alternative to either the traditional MSBuild or Cake and Fake which we’ve featured previously in the Radar. NUKE represents build instructions as a C# DSL, making it easy to learn and with good IDE support. In our experience, NUKE made it really simple to build automation for .NET projects. We like the accurate static code checks and hints. We also like that we can use any NuGet package seamlessly and that the automation code can be compiled to avoid problems at runtime. NUKE isn’t new, but its novel approach — using a C# DSL — and our positive overall experience prompted us to include it here. 54. Pactflow Trial We’ve used Pact for contract testing long enough to see some of the complexity that comes with scale. Some of our teams have successfully used Pactflow to reduce that friction. Pactflow runs both as software as a service and as an on-prem deployment with the same features as the SaaS offering, and it adds improved usability, security and auditing on top of the open-source Pact Broker offering. We’ve been pleased with our use so far and are happy to see continued effort to remove some of the overhead of managing contract testing at scale. 55. Podman Trial As an alternative to Docker, Podman has been validated by many of our teams. Podman introduces a daemonless engine for managing and running containers which is an interesting approach in comparison to what Docker does. Additionally, Podman can be easily run as a normal user without requiring root privileges, which reduces the attack surface. By using either Open Container Initiative (OCI) images built by Buildah or Docker images, Podman can be adapted to most container use cases. Apart from some compatibility issues with macOS, our team has had generally good experiences with Podman on Linux distributions. 56. Sourcegraph Trial In our previous Radar, we featured two tools that search and replace code using an abstract syntax tree (AST) representation, Comby and Sourcegraph. Although they share some similarities, they also differ in several ways. Sourcegraph is a commercial tool (with a 10-user free tier). It’s particularly suited for searching, navigating or cross-referencing in large codebases, with an emphasis on an interactive developer experience. In contrast, Comby is a lightweight open-source command-line tool for automating repetitive tasks. Because Sourcegraph is a hosted service, it also has the ability © Thoughtworks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 28