Middleware
Tool designed to help engineering leaders measure and analyze the effectiveness of their teams using the DORA metrics.
Little to no recent activity. Treat as unmaintained until proven otherwise.
Commit activity more than 6% of tracked projects; popularity more than 43%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 1.6k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 0.3.1 · 30 May 2025 |
| Repo updated | 3 Aug 2026 |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Built with | Docker, Python, Nodejs |
Is Middleware actively maintained?
Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 8 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 4 of them.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 100% more commits than the one before it.
The last tagged release, 0.3.1, is over 1 year old. If you deploy, expect to build from the default branch rather than a stable tag.
Middleware ranks #27 of 33 tracked analytics projects. Several better-maintained options exist in the same category — they are listed below.
What Middleware actually does
Middleware is an analytics platform that helps engineering leaders measure team performance using standard DORA metrics. It processes telemetry and workflow data to track delivery speed and operational stability.
Best fit: Engineering managers who want to track deployment frequency and lead time without relying on proprietary cloud services.
Worth knowing: The project has a low maintenance score and modest community traction, meaning you may need to patch bugs yourself or deal with abandoned code.
Deployment notes
Because the stack includes Python and Node.js packaged via Docker, you will typically need to configure persistent volumes for data storage and place the container behind a reverse proxy for TLS termination.
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