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MTAR T3D Sessions: Why Companies Can’t Rely on OSS Maintainers Alone
In this episode, Pauline Vos, software engineer and open source maintainer for MongoDB’s PHP ecosystem, breaks down a reality most teams overlook: the open source libraries your product depends on may be maintained by a single person with no long-term guarantees.
What happens when that person steps away? Pauline explains why companies need to actively invest engineering resources into maintaining their surrounding open source ecosystem; not just for stability, but to reduce risk, improve developer experience, and build strategic relationships within key frameworks.
From client libraries to…
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