The Tech Stack Canvas (engl.)

Have you ever wished to give a new developer, HR or your management a quick overview of your tech stack? Was the only thing you found a long document or a dead wiki page that nobody wanted to read?

This short talk introduces the Tech Stack Canvas, a tool for creating, documenting, and communicating a product’s tech stack. We’ll explore its key elements and the process of creating a new canvas. The goal is to empower tech teams to make informed technology decisions and effectively communicate their tech stack to stakeholders. For a quick overview, visit https://techstackcanvas.io

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1. The Tech Stack Canvas TECHNOLOGY DAY / 13.11.2023 Create, Document, Communicate JOERG MUELLER PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
2. Challenges
3. New Team Member How to provide an initial overview?
4. New Project How do we define the main elements?
5. Many Independent Teams How to get a big picture?
6. The Canvas
7. https://techstackcanvas.io/
9. Product Context • • • • • • Influencing factors for the selected stack As Context No need to be complete On the contrary → Little space forces you to focus on the essentials E.g. 10 or 10000 requests/second? Essential SLAs
10. Classic Layers • • • • Programming languages Frameworks Important libraries Databases
11. Supporting Elements • • • • • • • APIs internal external focus on the essentials Auth* Compliance rules (e.g. GDPR) Testing
12. Infrastruktur & Tools • • • • Foundation of the product Cloud providers and most important services Don't forget analytics Also includes IDEs, Issue Trackers, VCS and even Chat
13. Creating a Canvas
14. Document an Existing Stack • • • • • • Simple interview of the team Takes usually 30-60 minutes Keep it simple Miro-Template, if online PDF Printout, if offline Post-It notes on a wall also work
15. Create a New Stack • • • • • Very useful in Scoping Workshops Sometimes an hour is already enough If you really need to create it from ground up: see: https://techstackcanvas.io/#create Important: start with constraints
16. Try it! The canvas is quickly created → then benefit
17. https://www.comicagile.net/comic/the-canvas-canvas/ Next Level:
18. Questions? Jörg Müller joerg.mueller@innoq.com +49 151 15676616 @joergm@mastodon.social @joergm.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/in/joerg-m www.innoq.com innoQ Deutschland GmbH Krischerstr. 100 40789 Monheim +49 2173 333660 Ohlauer Str. 43 10999 Berlin Ludwigstr. 180E 63067 Offenbach Kreuzstr. 16 80331 München Wendenstr. 130 20537 Hamburg Königstorgraben 11 90402 Nürnberg techstackcanvas.io