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Welcome to the 8th edition of Open Source Matters: our regular publication about the latest happenings in open source! Let’s dive into the news.

Most products that run as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) are built to be multi-tenant, meaning that a single instance or deployment is meant to be used by multiple organizations. There’s a good reason for this: it’s generally easier to scale and operate multi-tenant applications. But in this new age of containers, orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, and Kubernetes, where it’s cheaper, faster, and simpler to deploy a new instance of an application, that may no longer be the case.

Like all Norse gods and Marvel villains, every open source project has a good origin story. The new episode of “Grafana’s Big Tent” podcast provides that behind-the-code look at building Grafana Mimir, the horizontally scalable, highly performant open source time series database that Grafana Labs debuted in March.

We’ve got great news for.NET developers – JFrog Artifactory can now act as your fully featured Symbol Server! Artifactory has long offered native support for NuGet packages, now developers can also store their symbol files in Artifactory where they can be indexed and consumed by the Visual Studio Debugger and other debugging tools.

puppetlabs-pe_status_check is a new supported module for Puppet Enterprise. It provides a series of indicators of system status that the Puppet Support team has determined to avoid support incidents or outages. Utilizing this module and the accompanying documentation will allow the user to craft preventative maintence workflows and, should it still be required, increase the quality of information in any support ticket, to help decrease the time to resolution for any incident.

The path to success in software development can be long and challenging. It requires a lot of skills and dedication as it’s not just about building applications, it’s so much more. It is also about being tailored for any situation, requiring us to be quick to adapt to change and to the unexpected.

Wiley’s Dummies series is best known for repackaging technical, nuanced material into practical and accessible lesson books. In partnership with Nexthink, the company’s latest addition, Digital Employee Experience, delivers on this same reputational goal. Most ‘for Dummies’ books are written either from a purely technical or from a higher level, management topic.

The second in our Feature Highlights webinar series, Protect the Business with Cribl Packs, highlights Packs and security use cases. Packs enable you to share complex Stream/Edge configurations across multiple Worker Groups/Fleets, between Stream/Edge deployments or with the Cribl Community. Packs roll up best practices to ensure Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams have the required data to protect the business.

I’m excited and humbled to announce that ServiceNow has been recognized as a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice in Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms. We attribute this distinction to our customers, who’ve been on this journey with us. Their valuable input molds our strategy and products.