22/04/2026
đ¨ Bold take: Most companies donât have an open-source strategy. They have an open-source dependency habit.
If a project is âcriticalâ to your stack but maintained by a handful of burned-out volunteers, thatâs not efficiency. Thatâs unpriced risk.
Ingress-NGINX was the warning shot. More projects will hit the same wall unless companies stop treating OSS like free infrastructure and start acting like stakeholders. đĽ
This article names 3 projects every platform and engineering leader should keep on their radar.
Worth the read đ
https://www.softwareplaza.com/it-magazine/3-open-source-projects-that-could-be-the-next-ingress-nginx
Whatâs one open-source tool your team relies on that would cause chaos if maintainership disappeared tomorrow?