The Microsoft-owned Github has announced that is has acquired npm, a company with a large registry of JavaScript packages.
Nat Friedman, Github's chief executive officer, who made the announcement in a blog post, wrote that npm's place in the open-source space and their hefty registry of JavaScript packages was a key reason for the purchase.
Wire data is increasingly important as a means to future proof availability and performance management as it becomes a source of information and a springboard for analysis of the entire IT infrastructure