100 GitHub Projects That Defined 2025: A Community-Driven Ranking
This article ranks the 100 developer tools developers acted on most in 2025, based on real interaction data from across FAUN·dev() ecosystem.
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This article ranks the 100 developer tools developers acted on most in 2025, based on real interaction data from across FAUN·dev() ecosystem.

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2025 isn’t slowing down. From AI agents and lightweight frameworks to infrastructure that actually scales, open source is where the real innovation’s happening.
We’ve combed through FAUN.dev newsletters and community picks to bring you the standout projects developers are loving this year.
Every click you've made is a vote for what's hot and what's not in the open source world. We've analyzed thousands of interactions to identify the tools that have truly captured the attention and imagination of the FAUN.dev community.
If you're curious what's making waves in real dev workflows, this list is your shortcut.

Welcome to our deep dive into the hottest open source tools of 2023!
In today's ever-evolving tech landscape, staying updated with the most impactful tools can be challenging. That's why we've turned to our readers, the best source of truth.

OpenTeleletry Collector is an open source data collection pipeline that allows you to monitor CPU, RAM, disk, network metrics, and many more.
Collector itself does not include built-in storage or analysis capabilities, but you can export the data to Uptrace and ClickHouse, using them as a replacement for Grafana and Prometheus.
When compared to Prometheus, ClickHouse can offer small on-disk data size and better query performance when analyzing millions of timeseries.

Mia-Platform releases open-source a CRUD Service tailored for MongoDB. Read the blog post to discover all its features and advantages!

Valkey 9.0 debuts with atomic slot migrations, hash field expiration, and improved cluster mode support, enhancing data management and scalability.

Cline-bench launches to offer realistic AI coding benchmarks, pledging $1M to support open source maintainers and enhance research with real-world challenges.

Red Hat and NVIDIA partner to distribute the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit across Red Hat platforms, aiming to simplify AI adoption and enhance developer experience.

Mirantis introduces Pelagia, an open source tool to streamline Ceph storage management on Kubernetes, advancing automation and integration with GitOps workflows.