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First things first, you'll want a DB that doesn't have cockroach in the name. I'm only slightly kidding.
by scarmig 9y ago
First things first, you'll want a DB that doesn't have cockroach in the name.
I'm only slightly kidding.
- Scaevolus 9y agoWhen picking clever pun names, it's important to choose words that executives won't feel silly saying. Spencer Kimball, CEO of Cockroach Labs, created the GIMP in college.
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- patorjk 9y agoYears ago I worked on a project where a lot of the code was done in Tcl (pronounced "tickle"). Management would not say "tickle", instead they insisted on saying T-C-L. Tcl is a pretty neat language, and while I was on the project, I couldn't help but wonder how much it's name had held it back.
- danudey 9y agoI call it 'T-C-L' despite being a programmer, because calling it 'tickle' just sounds stupid to me. 'Sequel' for 'SQL' similarly sounds weird so I just say 'S-Q-L'. Maybe that's just me.
- manigandham 9y ago"Kubernetes" can also be considered silly. The industry as a whole tends to not be good at naming.
- ifdefdebug 9y agoHave you ever been in a place where you turn on the light in the kitchen at night and what you see is a zillion cockroaches all over the place, on the floor, the walls, cupboards, everywhere, starting all at once to run and seek a dark place to hide in the moment you hit the light switch? Well I have. Looking at that is like looking at "replication" and "resiliency" in liquid state.
- manigandham 9y agoCall it CRDB then, which is also used in dev discussions. Perhaps they should officially rebrand it to that.