Tech Garden

Browse the Tech Garden by usefulness ring below, or explore connections in the graph.

Items are tagged with a usefulness rating (adopt, trial, assess, hold) and a category (tool, technique, platform, language). The garden replaces the old quadrant-based Tech Radar URLs; legacy /radar/... links redirect here.

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Data Access Object
July 1, 2026
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Sqitch
July 1, 2026
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Termdock
July 1, 2026
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Infracost
July 1, 2026
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Object-Oriented Programming
July 1, 2026
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DORA Metrics
July 1, 2026
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Adopt

12 Factor App
No Change
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Acyclic Dependencies Principle
No Change
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Agent Skills - Sources
No Change
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Ansible
No Change
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ArgoCD
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Cattle Not Pets
No Change
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Checkov
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Code Linting
No Change
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Code Review
No Change
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CodexBar
New
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Common Closure Principle
No Change
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Common Reuse Principle
No Change
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Container Structure Test
No Change
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Containerization
No Change
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Continuous Delivery
No Change
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Continuous Integration
No Change
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Cursor
New
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cursor-agent
New
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Declarative IaC
No Change
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Declarative Programming
No Change
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Dependency Inversion Principle
No Change
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Dev Container
No Change
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DevOps
No Change
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DORA Metrics
No Change
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Dumb-init for containers
New
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EditorConfig
No Change
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Factory Pattern
New
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First Principles
No Change
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First Touch Provisioning
No Change
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Functional Programming
New
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Git
No Change
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git lfs
No Change
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GitHub
No Change
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GitHub Actions
No Change
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GitOps
No Change
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go script
New
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GoLang
No Change
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Google Cloud Platform
No Change
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Helm Unittest
No Change
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Hybrid Cloud
Moved In
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Inbox Pattern
No Change
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Incident Management
No Change
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Integration Testing
New
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Interface Segregation Principle
New
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jq
No Change
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JSON
No Change
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JSON Schema
No Change
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K9s
No Change
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Kubernetes
No Change
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Liskov Substitution Principle
No Change
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Node.js
No Change
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Object-Oriented Programming
No Change
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Open Container Initiative
No Change
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Open Policy Agent
New
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Open-Closed Principle
New
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OpenTelemetry
No Change
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Playwright
No Change
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Policy as Code
No Change
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Postgres
New
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Pull Request
No Change
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Reasoning by analogy
No Change
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Representational State Transfer (REST)
No Change
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Reuse-Release Equivalence Principle
No Change
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SARIF
New
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Shift Left
No Change
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Shift Left
No Change
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Shodan
No Change
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Single Responsibility Principle
No Change
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Single Sign-on
New
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SLAs
New
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SOLID Principles
New
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Stable Abstractions Principle
No Change
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Stable Dependencies Principle
No Change
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Test Pyramid
No Change
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Up-time Monitoring
No Change
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YAML
No Change
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Zero Trust Network Architecture
No Change
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Trial

Access on Demand
No Change
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Argo Workflows
New
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Backstage
New
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BicepGoat
New
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Bun
No Change
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CdkGoat
New
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CfnGoat
New
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Claude Code
No Change
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Codex
New
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Conftest
No Change
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dbt-core
No Change
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DeathByClaude
New
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DevSecOps
No Change
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Dive
No Change
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Draw.io
No Change
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DVWA
New
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Enterprise Ready
Moved In
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Feature Flags
No Change
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fnm
New
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gbrain
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Gemini
New
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Git Merge Queues
New
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Git Worktree
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GitLab
No Change
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Grafana
No Change
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Grafana k6
New
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HCL
No Change
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InsecureBank v2
New
trial
Juice Shop
New
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Kubernetes Goat
New
trial
Kustomize
No Change
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KustomizeGoat
New
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Loki
New
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npm
No Change
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npx
New
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Ollama
New
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OpenAPI
No Change
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OpenCode
New
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PM2
New
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Podman
New
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Prometheus
New
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Protobuf
No Change
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PyGoat
New
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Python
No Change
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Rancher Desktop
New
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Scrum
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Semgrep
New
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Skaffold
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Slack
New
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SupplyGoat
New
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TerraGoat
New
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Tilt
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usql
New
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Warp Agent
New
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Warp Terminal
New
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WebGoat
New
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Zap
No Change
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Assess

3 Point Estimate
Moved In
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A Model of Communication
No Change
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Agent Client Protocol
New
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Agent Skills Framework
No Change
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Apache Airflow
New
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Apache Superset
New
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asdf
New
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Auth0
No Change
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AWS Config
New
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Azure Policy
New
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BigQuery
New
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Bitbucket Pipelines
New
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Boundary (Hashicorp)
No Change
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CEL
No Change
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Censys
New
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Cline
New
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Cloud Custodian
New
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CloudGraph
New
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Codacy
No Change
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Concourse CI
New
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conda
New
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Continuous Deployment
No Change
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CUE
New
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Cursor Keep Alive
No Change
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Dagu
New
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Data Access Object
No Change
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Datadog
New
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Daybreak
No Change
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direnv
No Change
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Dotfiles in Version Control
New
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Earlybird
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Ebitengine
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Elasticsearch
New
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Fishbone diagram
No Change
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Five Whys
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FrontEgg
New
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Gatekeeper
No Change
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Genesis
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GitHub Next Repo Visualization
New
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Gmail Automata
New
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Go Template
No Change
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go-version
New
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GoCD
New
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gog
New
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gRPC
No Change
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Harness.io
New
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Helm
No Change
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Helm Chart
New
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Honeycomb
New
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InfluxDB
New
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Infracost
New
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Inter-process Communication (IPC)
No Change
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Jaeger
New
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Karpenter
New
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Kibana
New
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Kilo.ai
New
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kube-bench
New
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Kubecost
New
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Kuberhealthy
New
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Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO)
New
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Kubescape
New
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Lightdash
New
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Looker
New
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mise
New
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Model-View-Controller (MVC)
No Change
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Netlify
New
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Nix
New
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Nomad
No Change
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NoSQL
New
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nvm
New
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Object-Relational Mapping (ORM)
No Change
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Octopus Deploy
New
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OpenCost
New
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OpenGrep
New
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OrbStack
No Change
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Oz
New
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Planning Poker
No Change
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Power BI
New
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Preset
New
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Pulumi
No Change
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pyenv
New
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rbenv
New
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Redash
New
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Replicated
No Change
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RTK
New
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Shell Operator
New
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Snowflake
New
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Software as a Service
No Change
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SpiceDB
New
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Spinnaker
New
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Splunk
New
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Sqitch
New
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SRE
No Change
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Steampipe
New
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Tableau
New
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Tailscale
No Change
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Tailwind CSS
New
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Termdock
New
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Terraform
No Change
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Testcontainers
No Change
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Travis CI
No Change
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tree-sitter
No Change
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tree-sitter-graph
No Change
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Trino
New
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TypeScript
No Change
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Upptime
No Change
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Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness
New
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Wireguard
No Change
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Work Queues
No Change
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Workflow
No Change
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YAMLScript
No Change
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Zanzibar
No Change
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ZoomEye
New
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ZTNA
No Change
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Hold

AsciiFlow
No Change
hold
AWS
No Change
hold
AWS EKS
No Change
hold
Azure
Moved Out
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Capistrano
No Change
hold
CDKs
No Change
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ChatOps
No Change
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Cloud Lift and Shift
No Change
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CloudBees
Moved Out
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Clutch
No Change
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CodeShip
New
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Cypress
New
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Docker
No Change
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Docker Compose
Moved Out
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Docker Desktop
Moved Out
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Docker Swarm
Moved Out
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DRY
Moved Out
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goodcheck
No Change
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GraphQL
New
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Hermes
Moved Out
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Imperative IaC
No Change
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JavaScript
No Change
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Jenkins
No Change
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Jenkins X
No Change
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LibreNMS
No Change
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Meercode
No Change
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Metabase
No Change
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MySQL
New
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Nagios
No Change
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OpenClaw
New
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Presto
New
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Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
No Change
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Ruby
No Change
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Ruby on Rails
No Change
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Selenium
New
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System Initiative
Moved Out
hold
Zabbix
No Change
hold