Case study · Research launch · Aiven
Resonance mined eight years of GitHub data. The Register, TechRadar and TechMonitor ran the findings.
Open source sits at the heart of Aiven, but that is hard to show developers through the media. Resonance used GitHub Archive and Google BigQuery to measure how much the hyperscalers really contribute, and packaged the findings with comment from CTO Heikki Nousiainen.
108MGitHub Archive rows analysed per month
96months of data analysed, eight years in total
58GBof GitHub data analysed
The coverage
Aiven research · Growth of open source commits
Microsoft, Google and Amazon commits to GitHub, 2016 to 2022
What the data showed
A late arrival reaches the top five
In October 2022 Amazon had 2,482 active contributors making 42,559 commits, putting it in the top five for the first time. Five years earlier it had 755 contributors making 7,883 commits.
Google passes Microsoft on contributors
Google's monthly commits rose 20% year on year, and its 4,643 active contributors overtook Microsoft's 4,394 for the first time since records began in 2016. Over a third of Microsoft's contributions were in languages it maintains itself, such as PowerShell and C#.
Picked up across the tech press
The findings went out as a press release with comment from Heikki Nousiainen, who called Amazon overtaking IBM an unexpected result. Coverage followed in The Register, TechRadar, BetaNews and TechMonitor.
Who ran it
Senior people, close to the work.
The Resonance senior team planned and ran this programme, from the first conversation about what the market needed to believe to the last piece of coverage.
The figures above describe the scale of the research. The original page gives no coverage count or reach.