Every IT leader should be up to date on what’s happening in the tech industry. Social media, blogs, and other publications provide a steady stream of daily information, but it’s also useful to regularly review high-level, periodical reports. Here are some of the reports I follow that are relevant to my work.

ThoughtWorks Technology Radar

ThoughWorks Technology Radar is a global opinionated guide released by ThoughtWorks where they share their observations on both new and obsolete trends in IT. The report consists of four categories: Platform, Languages and Frameworks, Tools, and Techniques. For each category, there are items to assess, trial, adopt, and put on hold. The guide comes out twice per year.

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Survey Report

CNCF Survey Report focuses on the usage of cloud-native technologies based on the community survey performed by CNCF. The report covers the usage of different cloud setups (private vs public vs hybrid), state of automation, usage of containers and Kubernetes, serverless, and various tools from the cloud-native landscape.

DORA Research Reports

The DORA Research Report is published by DORA and covers the topics of DevOps, developer tooling, platform engineering and AI-assisted development. Basically everything related to developer productivity and software delivery.

State of JS and State of CSS

The State of JS and State of CSS are two similar reports covering different aspects of frontend development: one covering everything related to JavaScript, and the other - CSS. They both mostly focus on the technological aspects of development, analyzing the most prominent frameworks, libraries, tools, and capabilities that exist in their areas. However, they also provide some insights into community aspects, such as surveying expressed opinions and analyzing learning resources.

The State of Developer Ecosystem by JetBrains

The State of Developer Ecosystems explores the languages and platforms used by developers. The report is published by JetBrains, the company behind popular IDE products, such as IntelliJ IDEA. It provides a bird’s eye view of the programming languages, platforms, tools, and project types of the respondents and provides a way to deep dive into a particular subject for more details.

Developer Survey by StackOverflow

The Developer Survey is a broad research conducted by StackOverflow. It provides insights into the demographics profiles of surveyed developers, their technological preferences, employment conditions, and the stack overflow community in general.

The Hacker News Hiring Trends reports illustrate the hiring trends on Hacker News

PopularitY of Programming Language (PYPL)

The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is an analysis of popular programming languages based on how frequently people search for tutorials on Google.

Something I’ve missed?

I’m sure there are many other interesting reports available out there. If there is something you can recommend - please share the link and I’ll add it to the list.