“It was a privilege to be part of this research effort to better understand the health and habits of the open source component ecosystem, where we could study all the Java artifacts stored in The Central Repository, which some of us know as 'Maven Central,'” said Gene Kim Author, Researcher, and Founder of IT Revolution. “It was incredible to explore how exemplars achieve better outcomes (quality, security, popularity), and what factors correlated with them, such as team size, release frequency, number of dependencies, their strategy to update them, and many more.”