The Refactoring Tech Radar for 2025 📡
10 core techniques you should consider this year.
Hey there! Early every year we publish a list of techniques and tools you should consider in your new year resolutions.
It’s a list of recommended items, each with my own commentary about why you should add it to your arsenal. This year we are kinda late, but hopefully in time for your Q2 planning!
So how do we pick these items?
Most of them come from good conversations with smart tech leaders I know. These happen in the community, over the podcast, and in my network of friends. I also have a small set of publications I trust, from which I snipe material — most notably the Thoughtworks Radar, which pretty much inspires this work.
With respect to previous years, this time we will focus less on tools and more on core techniques — that is, practices that almost any engineering team can apply.
We will explore ten of them, and for each we will explain why it matters, why now, and recommended tools / resources to implement it.
Let’s dive in!