Every day, developers rely on millions of third-party and open source building blocks – known as components – to build the software that runs our world. Sonatype ensures that only the best components are used throughout the software development lifecycle so that organizations don’t have to make the tradeoff between going fast and being secure. Policy automation, ongoing monitoring and proactive alerts makes it easy to have full visibility and control of components throughout the software supply chain to improve the efficiency of component-based development. Sonatype operates the Central Repository, the industry’s primary source for open source components, housing more than 1.7 million components and managing more than 52 billion requests per year for the global software development community. More than 125,000 instances of Sonatype’s Nexus solutions are used to support agile, continuous delivery and DevOps practices glob ally.