ThoughtWorks is one the best consult and technology
company.  The technology radar document describe the trend  in term
of platform, tools,  techniques and language/framework.   This
issue has some talk about testing,  bigdata,  deployment which might
relevant to us.  I think it might be good for we keep up to date about the
trend in the industry. 

"Here are the trends highlighted in this edition: 

• Mobile
       - As mobile is rapidly becoming
       the primary way that people access the internet, this needs to be factored
       in to new enterprise application strategy, product strategy and
       implementation - from "mobile first" design all the way through
       to a new breed of testing tools.
• Accessible
       Analytics - Big Data does not have to
       equal Big Budgets. A combination of open-source tooling and cloud-based
       infrastructure provides a more readily accessible analytics and
       visualization approach.
• Simple
       architectures - Simple continues to gain
       traction, including both techniques for building and composing
       applications, as well as infrastructure-based techniques to enable simple
       deployment, failover and recover.
• Reproducible
       environments - Tools supporting the
       standardization, set-up automation and coordinated management of
       development, test and production environments for both internally hosted
       and public cloud environments feature prominently in this edition of the
       radar.  
      
• Data persistence done right - As NoSQL databases are maturing and gaining acceptance, an
       understanding of the patterns for use (and abuse) becomes imperative. "

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