Platforms Thoughtworks Technology Radar 39. Colima Assess Colima is becoming a popular open alternative to Docker for Desktop. It provisions the Docker container runtime in a Lima VM, configures the Docker CLI on macOS and handles port-forwarding and volume mounts. Colima uses containerd as runtime, which is also the runtime on most managed Kubernetes services (thus improved dev-prod parity). With Colima you can easily use and test the latest features of containerd, such as lazy loading for container images. With its good performance, we’re watching Colima as a strong potential for the open-source choice alternative to Docker for Desktop. 40. Collibra Assess In the increasingly crowded space that is the enterprise data catalog market, our teams have enjoyed working with Collibra. They liked the deployment flexibility of either a SaaS or self-hosted instance, the wide range of functionality included out of the box, including data governance, lineage, quality and observability. Users also have the option to use a smaller subset of capabilities required by a more decentralized approach such as a data mesh. The real feather in its cap has been their often overlooked customer support, which our people have found to be collaborative and supportive. Of course, there’s a tension between simple data catalogs and more full featured enterprise platforms, but so far the teams using it are happy with how Collibra has supported their needs. 41. CycloneDX Assess CycloneDX is a standard for describing a machine-readable Software Bill of Materials (SBOM). As software and compute fabrics increase in complexity, software becomes harder to define. Originating with OWASP, CycloneDX improves on the older SPDX standard with a broader definition that extends beyond the local machine dependencies to include runtime service dependencies. You’ll also find implementations in several languages, an ecosystem of supporting integrations and a CLI tool that lets you analyze and change SBOMs with appropriate signing and verification. 42. Embeddinghub Assess Embeddinghub is a vector database for machine-learning embeddings, and quite similar to Milvus. However, with out-of-the-box support for approximate nearest neighbor operations, partitioning, versioning and access control, we recommend you assess Embeddinghub for your embedding vector use cases. 43. Temporal Assess Temporal is a platform for developing long-running workflows, particularly for microservice architectures. A fork of Uber’s previous OSS Cadence project, it has an event-sourcing model for long-running workflows so they can survive process/machine crashes. Although we don’t recommend using distributed transactions in microservice architectures, if you do need to implement them or long-running Sagas, you may want to look at Temporal. © Thoughtworks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 24