// Hacker Noon · 3 March 2026

Investigating the "Bus Factor" Risk in MongoDB, MariaDB, and More

The “bus factor” (also called “truck factor’) measures how many people would have to disappear before no one left knows how to fix or update specific parts of the code. The tool has a categorization according to the project’s bus factor (a baseline that can be adjusted in the tool)

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