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Welcome to the 7th edition of Open Source Matters: our regular publication about the latest happenings in open source! Let’s dive into the news.

In this article, we will explore the main metrics of a GitHub repository and why it is important to monitor them. We will learn how to get GitHub data in a convenient format, process, then visualize it for further analysis. Finally, we will analyze the main advantages of using data monitoring tools such as Hosted Graphite and Grafana by MetricFire.

Microservice is now the architecture of choice for many developers when crafting cloud-native applications. A microservices application is a collection of loosely coupled services that communicate with each other, enhancing collaboration, maintainability, scalability, and deployment. There are several options for enabling this communication between microservices. REST is the most popular among developers, sometimes used synonymously with APIs. However, gRPC can be a better alternative to REST.

Looking to build your basic IT knowledge in 2022? In this post we'll cover some general network monitoring and network management best practices that MSPs and IT departments use to support their organizations. Any discussion about IT is eventually going to lead towards network monitoring and management. All told, one of the most well-understood roles of an IT department or IT provider is that of keeping a business’ essential systems up and running.

We recently released a minor version of SQL Monitor, v12.1, that includes Tagging and a new ‘Current Activity’ page. This blog post will outline the latter feature.

Gone are the days where software development was slowed down by the top-down, water-fall approach for getting work done. The rigidity of this methodology made for a longer development lifecycle, and it affected the way software was created and deployed.

We wrote this article in response to a question asked in our Slack Community. Click here to join hundreds of technology leaders discussing best practices for incident response! ✨ We know a thing or two about incident response. As such, we're often asked to advise when companies are designing their incident response processes. A common question is "How do you design your incident severity levels?". It's a great question given how central they are to incident response!