# Software Extensibility Is Key To Adoption

DevFeed: [Software Extensibility Is Key To Adoption](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/software-extensibility-is-key-to-adoption-45047.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.netdata.cloud/blog/software-extensibility-is-key-to-adoption/>)

Published: 2020-09-25T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Netdata](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-on-netdata.md>)

Topics: [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [software-development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-development.md>), [Framework](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/framework.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>)

Tags: [adoption](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/adoption.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [extensibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/extensibility.md>), [framework](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/framework.md>), [modularity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/modularity.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how software extensibility supports adoption by accommodating varied user and enterprise requirements. It traces a progression from open-source contributions and modular libraries to plug-in frameworks, APIs, and component marketplaces, then describes Netdata's modular collectors and exporters.

## Source excerpt

As with most commercial products, software today is mass produced for reasons of simple economics. But making the same software work for as many people as possible while also meeting the unique requirements different people and organizations have is a challenging task. The strategies used today to provide extensibility at cost and at the level required by various enterprises are very similar to the ones used in the 80s and 90s, when PCs first took off and captured an enormous amount of the home computing market, and when open source software started gaining popularity.