The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
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The world of open source metadata (Interview)
1 hour 43 minutes Posted Nov 5, 2025 at 8:30 pm.
This week on The Changelog
Sponsor: Tiger Data
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Some history
Research use
Sponsor: Augment Code
CLI install patterns
15k people run the world
Tracking the funding
Friends tipping circle
How he stores everything
Who's involved
Footing the bill
The black sheep
Sponsor: Outshift by Cisco
Sponsor: Miro
The schema is not simple
Curbing the enthusiasm
Deciding what to work on
Metadata substrate
Designing useful tools
Telemetry via exhaust
Information black holes
Octobox update
Exciting new uses
OSS Taxonomy
What Andrew wants
Wrapping up
Closing thoughts
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Andrew Nesbitt builds tools and open datasets to support, sustain, and secure critical digital infrastructure. He's been exploring the world of open source metadata for over a decade. First with libraries.io and now with ecosyste.ms, which tracks over 12 million packages, 287 million repos, 24.5 billion dependencies, and 1.9 million maintainers.
What has Andrew learned from all this, who is using this open dataset, and how does he hope others can build on top of it all? Tune in to find out.