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What we add
Topic graph
A wire service tags a release with a category, once. It doesn't maintain a durable graph over time. We connect them to a topic graph an agent can query.
Cybersecurity https://decisioninsights.ai/term/cybersecurity/
Data Center https://decisioninsights.ai/term/data-center/
Networking https://decisioninsights.ai/term/networking/
and 14 more
Counted facts
A protocol or open source project keeps no vendor list and publishes no figures of its own to check this against. This counts how it actually shows up across the graph -- articles that name it, the organizations named alongside it in those articles, similar projects, and organizations whose topic tags overlap with its own -- computed, not curated.
Related projects eBPF, Bpfman, libbpf, Baetyl, L3AF, Nginx, Fluent Bit, Envoy
Related organizations HAProxy Technologies, KrakenD, Solo.io, Kemp Technologies, Cloudflare, Node.js, Appcito, Liquid Web