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The time I spent in meeting discussing this name... :) Honestly, you're right that we're going to run into fun search engine issues, but Stack Overflow tags sh

The time I spent in meeting discussing this name... :) Honestly, you're right that we're going to run into fun search engine issues, but Stack Overflow tags should hopefully help. We opted for making it obvious what our product was doing and Functions was an logical evolution of our WebJobs SDK Functions concept, which is essentially what our product is - this is just a WebJobs SDK-as-a-Service. Time will tell; I hope we don't have to rebrand someday just to show up in the search engines, but we'll do what we hope is best for the customer.

andrewstuart 11y ago
You just said "yes its the wrong name, but we are doing it anyway and hoping StackOverflow will fix it or compensate for the wrong decision that we have made but are unwilling to fix because the politics was already so stressful that we don't want to go back there and besides a more important Microsoft manager than me made the decision, so it can't be changed.". Don't underestimate the critical importance of being able to effectively search to resolve problems with any given technology. Programming is the process of using Google to find why some thing isn't working as expected, interspersed with writing the occasional line or three of code. Your product name "functions" breaks this process. You know already its a problem you should fix it now and consider it not a software bug but a branding bug - the beta program has revealed the defect, how you should fix it early before polluting the search engine space with this ill considered product name. You guys.... so corporate. It's like a Dilbert cartoon.
raghava 11y ago
At work, we were guessing the name of AWS Lambda/Google Functions competitor by Azure and we were guessing Omicron, which comes after Lambda in the Greek alphabet and also has 'micro' in it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omicron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omicron Alright, any opensource lambda/functions clone can now take this name I guess!

andrewstuart 11y ago

You just said "yes its the wrong name, but we are doing it anyway and hoping StackOverflow will fix it or compensate for the wrong decision that we have made but are unwilling to fix because the politics was already so stressful that we don't want to go back there and besides a more important Microsoft manager than me made the decision, so it can't be changed.". Don't underestimate the critical importance of being able to effectively search to resolve problems with any given technology. Programming is the process of using Google to find why some thing isn't working as expected, interspersed with writing the occasional line or three of code. Your product name "functions" breaks this process. You know already its a problem you should fix it now and consider it not a software bug but a branding bug - the beta program has revealed the defect, how you should fix it early before polluting the search engine space with this ill considered product name. You guys.... so corporate. It's like a Dilbert cartoon.

raghava 11y ago

At work, we were guessing the name of AWS Lambda/Google Functions competitor by Azure and we were guessing Omicron, which comes after Lambda in the Greek alphabet and also has 'micro' in it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omicron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omicron Alright, any opensource lambda/functions clone can now take this name I guess!