Open Source Success: Learnings from 1 Billion Downloads | Avi Press | Conf42 Observability 2024

June 14, 2024

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Chapters
0:00 intro
0:26 preamble
0:40 introduction
1:49 talk outline
2:04 about the data
4:01 how the data is collected
5:24 about the data: total volume
5:56 what does a “user” mean?
8:42 what can an artifact registry actually see?
9:41 open source is being used (almost) everywhere
10:21 even in the most remote areas
10:51 governments around the world use open source
13:33 1.2m
14:56 95%
15:51 which public clouds?
17:06 container registry market share (from scarf)
19:07 2.2%
20:01 downloads vs unique users looks very different
22:09 many surges in downloads are not real user growth
25:01 a lot of your downloads are from automated systems
26:10 more clients should set rich headers / user agents
28:31 people fo not upgrade versions like you might expect
30:24 why does any of this matter?
33:43 takeaways
36:37 thank you!