Open source is fueling digital transformation

Developer demand for open source increased 73 percent over the last year and in 2021 developers around the world will download more than 2.2 trillion open source packages from the top four ecosystems. The latest Software Supply Chain Report from Sonatype shows a 20 percent increase in supply too, with the top four open source ecosystems now containing a combined 37,451,682 different versions of components. Despite this huge choice though production apps are found to utilize only six percent of available projects. However, this comes at the cost of a 650 percent increase in software supply chain attacks aimed at… [Continue Reading]