The Israeli Tech Radar Survey 2023: Survey Insights by Tikal

Introduction:

Tikal publishes its Israeli Tech Radar annually, an opinionated map that provides an overview of the latest technologies and trends dominating the Israeli tech industry, making it an indispensable compass in the rapidly changing tech world.

The tech radar, amongst other things, tries to forecast where the tech world is headed, what the trends are, and which software, libraries, and systems will most likely conquer the software development arena.

The Israeli Tech Radar for 2023 can be found here https://www.tikalk.com/radar/

The Israeli Tech Radar’s content is drawn from Tikal’s business activities across the Israeli & Silicon Valley tech industry, and through our collaborations with several leading Israeli tech companies such as Melio, Viz.ai, Yotpo, AI21 Labs, Wix, Taboola, Lumen, and Eureka Security.

Our methodology for reaching final recommendations regarding technologies is multi-faceted. Beyond extensive research and rigorous debates, this year, for the second time, we have implemented a brief technologies survey, harnessing insights from the tech community. This article focuses on the survey and its results.

The Survey:

Our survey presents an array of comprehensive questions to gain deeper insights into the ever-evolving technological landscape. The questionnaire commences with questions concerning the respondent’s professional credentials:

What is your seniority level?
What is your employment status?
Company name
Number of employees in your R&D Organization
What industry do you currently work in (select the closest one)?
Main location of R&D members
What is your main professional domain?

Upon addressing these questions, participants are asked to identify their main professional domain from the following options:

Backend and Machine Learning
DevOps
Frontend
Mobile

After determining their professional domain, a corresponding list of technologies, derived from last year’s Tech Radar, is displayed. At this juncture, participants are able to indicate each technology that is actively being used within their organization.

This year, our survey garnered responses from a diverse range of companies, varying in both type and size. An insightful takeaway from our collected data, visible in the accompanying graph, is the distribution of participants across various domains. It’s interesting to note that the Backend domain emerges as the most represented, comprising a significant 42% of our respondents.

Conclusions of the Survey per Domain:

Backend & Machine Learning

In the Backend domain, we see Python increasing its lead among the most used languages, with Node.js also growing in popularity. Surprisingly, Java is also expanding its influence, possibly indicating its staying power in the field. Another notable entrant is TypeScript. In the realm of Machine Learning, the Pandas library maintains its dominance, but the new surprise is Pandas 2. Despite only being released last June, it has already been adopted by 14% of the surveyed population. Another interesting finding is that 25% of respondents reported their company is adopting the Machine Learning Engineering profile.

DevOps:

In DevOps, Kubernetes reigns supreme, unsurprisingly. Jenkins maintains its position, but already 10% reported that they intend to replace it. This is particularly interesting following reports of an internal debate among DevOps practitioners about putting Jenkins on hold. Pulumi, which provides the capabilities of Terraform but in different programming languages, is gaining traction. However, Terraform is still very widely used. It’s interesting to observe the rise of Loki in the monitoring field. Loki, being a more efficient and cheaper tool than ELK or managed services like DataDog, may point to a cost reduction trend.

Frontend:

In Frontend, TypeScript maintains its strength and is used by 75% of the respondents. React.js is already in use by 63% of companies. There’s also an increase in the use of Cypress as a testing tool. Another significant rise is Vite, a build tool for developing web projects. Vite recorded an impressive rise from 8% to 26%.

Mobile:

In Mobile, Kotlin is the king of Android development with 65% usage. Flutter doubles its strength to 42% of companies, with Flutter Web also being used by 35%. Kotlin Flow also gets double representation from last year with 58%. A topic that appeared in last year’s trends, Declarative UI, gets a broad representation of 64% in the usage of Jetpack Compose. It appears that the Mobile domain did a good job of predicting last year’s trends.

In summary, the 2023 Tech Survey offers valuable insights into the prevailing tech trends across various domains. It appears that Python, Kubernetes, TypeScript, and Kotlin have managed to hold their positions at the forefront of their respective domains. Meanwhile, newer technologies and frameworks such as Vite, Pulumi, and Jetpack Compose are gaining noticeable traction, highlighting the dynamic nature of our industry.

Plans for next year:

For the upcoming year’s survey, we plan to delve even deeper. We will continue to track these existing trends and also expand our focus to cover emerging technologies and practices. We aim to further improve the granularity of our data, with an emphasis on identifying not just which technologies are being used, but also how and why they are being implemented. This will provide us with a more nuanced understanding of technology adoption across the industry. Our ultimate goal is to keep enhancing our ability to advise and guide tech companies on their journey to innovation and success.

Thanks:

Many thanks go to TechRadar Team in Tikal:

Michal Tinovich
Haim Cohen
Nir Kaufman
Asaf Varon
Yoav Nordman
Eitan Masuary
Lior Kanfi