GitHub launches Dependency Graph to help companies understand which projects they rely on

GitHub announced a series of updates to its service today that are supposed to help users improve the way they manage the development of software.
A new Dependency Graph will help customers better understand what code they rely on. It’s not unusual for one project to use an external piece of code to handle some piece of infrastructure that the developer didn’t want to replicate, and those dependencies sometimes stretch several layers deep.
What that means is that developers could be