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Immediate reaction: Well, now there's Peloton, the fitness tech company, Peloton, the self-driving truck caravan company, and Peloton, the cluster scheduler...

jonny_eh 8y ago
Where do all these names come from? Is it Latin or Greek or something?
- ericlewis 8y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloton I would guess
- chris_mc 8y ago
  I searched on google, a "peloton" is "the main field or group of cyclists in a race".
- WorldMaker 8y ago
  Peloton is a somewhat common French word for "ball" that became common in English as a sports term for a grouping in a bicycle race, by way of the Tour de France. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peloton https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peloton
  - jeromegv 8y ago
    Small detail, that's not what it means in French, it's basically used the same was as in English (a group of cyclist, group of race car drivers, etc.) It is however pelota, ball, in Spanish.
- vimslayer 8y ago
  In addition to what others have said here, "peloton" also means "fearless" in Finnish. I have no idea if or why they would've used that or if they're just referring to the cycling thing, but I guess "fearless" could also be kind of fitting for this project.
CurtHagenlocher 8y ago
And Peleton the open source RDBMS.
- r00fus 8y ago
  I remember when Mozilla got such heat for “usurping” the Firebird name (due to the name already being used by Firebird BD) - they then changed to Firefox. Does Uber get held to the same standard or do we just assume all names are overloaded now?
spyspy 8y ago
Kraken was already taken[0] [0] https://github.com/uber/kraken https://github.com/uber/kraken
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ignoramous 8y ago
...and peloton, CMU's NVMe-first db https://pelotondb.io/ https://pelotondb.io/
- medell 8y ago
  ...and https://www.peloton.com https://www.peloton.com and their oil & gas software.
- ambicapter 8y ago
  lol "Latest development updates" > Added notice that the project is dead https://github.com/cmu-db/peloton/commit/484d76df9344cb5c153a2c361c5d5018912d4cf4 https://github.com/cmu-db/peloton/commit/484d76df9344cb5c153...

jonny_eh 8y ago

Where do all these names come from? Is it Latin or Greek or something?

ericlewis 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloton I would guess
chris_mc 8y ago
I searched on google, a "peloton" is "the main field or group of cyclists in a race".
WorldMaker 8y ago
Peloton is a somewhat common French word for "ball" that became common in English as a sports term for a grouping in a bicycle race, by way of the Tour de France. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peloton https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peloton
- jeromegv 8y ago
  Small detail, that's not what it means in French, it's basically used the same was as in English (a group of cyclist, group of race car drivers, etc.) It is however pelota, ball, in Spanish.
vimslayer 8y ago
In addition to what others have said here, "peloton" also means "fearless" in Finnish. I have no idea if or why they would've used that or if they're just referring to the cycling thing, but I guess "fearless" could also be kind of fitting for this project.

CurtHagenlocher 8y ago

And Peleton the open source RDBMS.

r00fus 8y ago
I remember when Mozilla got such heat for “usurping” the Firebird name (due to the name already being used by Firebird BD) - they then changed to Firefox. Does Uber get held to the same standard or do we just assume all names are overloaded now?

spyspy 8y ago

Kraken was already taken[0] [0] https://github.com/uber/kraken https://github.com/uber/kraken

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ignoramous 8y ago

...and peloton, CMU's NVMe-first db https://pelotondb.io/ https://pelotondb.io/

medell 8y ago
...and https://www.peloton.com https://www.peloton.com and their oil & gas software.
ambicapter 8y ago
lol "Latest development updates" > Added notice that the project is dead https://github.com/cmu-db/peloton/commit/484d76df9344cb5c153a2c361c5d5018912d4cf4 https://github.com/cmu-db/peloton/commit/484d76df9344cb5c153...