Platforms Thoughtworks Technology Radar 39. Teleport Trial Teleport is a tool for zero trust network access to infrastructure. Traditional setups require complex policies or jump servers to restrict access to critical resources. Teleport, however, simplifies this with a unified access plane and with fine-grained authorization controls that replace jump servers, VPNs or shared credentials. Implemented as a single binary with out-of-the-box support for several protocols (including SSH, RDP, Kubernetes API, MySQL, MongoDB and PostgreSQL wire protocols), Teleport makes it easy to set up and manage secured access across Linux, Windows or Kubernetes environments. Since we first mentioned it in the Radar, a few teams have used Teleport and our overall positive experience prompted us to highlight it. 40. VictoriaMetrics Trial Modern observability relies on collecting and aggregating an exhaustive set of granular metrics to fully understand, predict and analyze system behavior. But when applied to a cloud native system composed of many redundant and cooperating processes and hosts, the cardinality (or number of unique time series) becomes unwieldy because it grows exponentially with each additional service, container, node, cluster, etc. When dealing with high-cardinality data, we’ve found that VictoriaMetrics performs well. VictoriaMetrics is particularly useful for operating Kubernetes-hosted microservice architectures, and the VictoriaMetrics operator makes it easy for teams to implement their own monitoring in a self-service way. We also like its componentized architecture and ability to continue collecting metrics even when the central server is unavailable. Although our team has been happy with VictoriaMetrics, this is a rapidly evolving area, and we’d recommend keeping an eye on other high-performance, Prometheus-compatible time series databases such as Cortex or Thanos. 41. Bun Assess Bun is a new JavaScript runtime, similar to Node.js or Deno. Unlike Node.js or Deno, however, Bun is built using WebKit’s JavaScriptCore instead of Chrome’s V8 engine. Designed as a drop-in replacement for Node.js, Bun is a single binary (written in Zig) that acts as a bundler, transpiler and package manager for JavaScript and TypeScript applications. Bun is currently in beta, so expect bugs or compatibility issues with a few Node.js libraries. However, it’s been built from the ground up with several optimizations, including fast startup and improved server-side rendering, and we believe it’s worthwhile to assess. 42. Databricks Unity Catalog Assess Databricks Unity Catalog is a data governance solution for assets such as files, tables or machine learning models in a lakehouse. Although you’ll find several platforms in the enterprise data governance space, if you’re already using other Databricks solutions, you should certainly assess Unity Catalog. We want to highlight that while these governance platforms usually implement a centralized solution for better consistency across workspaces and workloads, the responsibility to govern should be federated by enabling individual teams to govern their own assets. © Thoughtworks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 24