My Own TechRadar

Fuck Zalando's one. Opinionated and effective. A lot of things isn't covered, it's not an encyclopedia.

Prefer

• node.js
• npm
• RPC-style JSON APIs
• SPA: JSON DTO services | server-side: own 500 loc ORM + MVC
• React
• preact
• CSS modules (postcss)
• leaflet
• postgresql
• mariadb
• nginx
• Docker
• Podman
• Debian Linux
• prometheus & grafana
• headless chromium
• stolon
• etcd
• dovecot, postfix
• git
• Gitea
• rainloop webmail
• redis, memcached
• kafka
• keepalived
• OpenNebula
• MediaWiki
• JSON Schema
• Ethereum
• mc & mcedit
• python for ML
• ReactPHP

Allow but prefer other options, if any

• haproxy
• ansible
• boot2docker
• patroni
• consul
• spamassassin
• roundcube webmail
• kubernetes
• Gitlab
• Ceph
• OData
• vim
• PHP & php-fpm
• TypeScript
• Golang

Avoid as much as possible / inappropriate solution in the vast majority of cases

• microservice architecture
• ExtJS
• RHEL / CentOS
• java
• .net core
• all other statically typed languages for web backend & frontend
• python for everything except ML :)
• vert.x (java)
• jOOQ, querydsl (java)
• PHP CMSs (and probably CMSs in general)
• redux
• heavy JS grids in general, like ag-grid
• vue.js
• mobx
• react-router
• Bootstrap
• apache
• munin
• vagrant
• Lua
• Perl
• Keycloak, WSO2IS
• Mercurial
• SOAP, XML-RPC, JSON-RPC
• GUI IDEs
• Docker Swarm
• yarn
• composer // php is not the place for npm
• Windows desktop

Deny use / never a good solution even if popular

• REST
• GraphQL
• Angular
• jQuery
• older databinding js frameworks like ember.js, backbone and so on
• GWT
• rxjs
• underscorejs
• ramda-fantasy and similar strange js libraries
• Traditional ORM in general, like Hibernate (java) or Doctrine (PHP)
• Heavy frameworks in general, like Spring (java) or Zend/Yii/Laravel/etc (PHP)
• DI in general
• Liquibase (java)
• Java Application servers
• Ruby
• Erlang/Elixir
• Windows server
• MacOS or Apple anything
• .NET, powershell
• Oracle
• Proprietary software in general
• Bazaar, CVS and other VCS
• so-called "serverless"