Themes in Technology Radar Vol.32

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Careers, Business, 907234, Technology

4.7 • 53 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Thoughtworks Technology Radar Vol.32 was published at the start of April 2025. Featuring 105 blips, it offered a timely snapshot of what's interesting and important in the industry. Through the process of putting it together, we also identify a collection of key themes that speak to the things that shaped our conversations.

This time, there were four: supervised agents in coding assistants, evolving observability, the R in RAG and taming the data frontier. We think they point to some of the key challenges and issues that industry as a whole is currently grappling with.

To dig deeper and explore what they tell us about software in 2025, regular host Neal Ford takes the guest seat alongside Birgitta Böckeler to talk to Lilly Ryan and Prem Chandrasekaran. They explain how the themes are identified and discuss their wider implications.

Read the latest volume of the Thoughtworks Technology Radar: https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast.
0:11.4	I'm Lily Ryan. I'm one of your regular hosts.
0:14.0	Hosting with me today is Prem, another one of our regular hosts. Hello.
0:18.7	Hello, folks. I'm glad to be here.
0:25.0	Another really refreshing episode in the Wings.
0:30.9	And joining us today as guests are Neil Ford and Begitta Bocler,
0:36.1	who are members of the Doppler team, part of the team that puts together the tech radar at ThoughtWorks every year.
0:37.1	And they're going to discuss with us today some of the themes that came out of this year's radar.
0:41.6	Welcome, Neil. Welcome, Begator.
0:43.7	Thank you. It's great to be here as a guest.
0:46.0	Hi, Lily.
0:47.1	All right. So the tech radar is just out, the latest edition, Volume 32.
0:54.0	And looks like we've got four themes on the radar.
0:56.4	And can you introduce us to what these themes are, Neil?
0:59.4	Sure. Let me explain first what the themes are on our radar, because there are two things
1:05.1	that show up on our ThoughtWorks Technology radar, which is always available at Thoughtworks.com
1:09.6	slash radar, if you haven't seen it
1:11.1	before. There are blips and there are themes. The way the radar comes about is this is purely
1:17.5	curated from actual project work. So teams at ThoughtWorks either get really excited about a technology
1:24.2	or they really dislike a technology and they nominate it for our radar.
1:29.0	And twice a year, a group of people called Doppler, that's Birgita and I are both part of
1:33.9	this group, gather face to face. We gathered in Bangkok this time to basically curate all those
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