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By the way: where does the Jepsen name come from? I have wondered more than once and my browsing and searching skills are failing me on this one. Edit: The cl

By the way: where does the Jepsen name come from? I have wondered more than once and my browsing and searching skills are failing me on this one. Edit: The closest link I can find is "Call me maybe" but I am not able to find a causation or even a direct link or mention for now.

cp9 6y ago
it's named after the Carly Rae Jepsen song "Call Me Maybe"
perlgeek 6y ago
I don't actually know, but I could imagine it's a tribute to Carly Rae Jepsen and their song "Call me maybe". I dimly recall that either Aphyr's blog or the jepsen blog was called "call me maybe" in the earlier days.
- deleted 6y ago
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- twunde 6y ago
  Here's at least one reference to it: https://www.informationweek.com/database/the-man-who-tortures-databases/d/d-id/1111407 https://www.informationweek.com/database/the-man-who-torture... And it looks like earlier versions of the github project looked more like this: https://github.com/threadwaste/jepsen https://github.com/threadwaste/jepsen with references to the Carly Rae Jepson song in the project description in both the README and in github. Actually, it looks like the original talk (Slides: https://aphyr.com/media/jepsen-ricon-east.pdf https://aphyr.com/media/jepsen-ricon-east.pdf has multiple references) and the original blog post has a slug referring to the song https://aphyr.com/posts/281-call-me-maybe-carly-rae-jepsen-and-the-perils-of-network-partitions https://aphyr.com/posts/281-call-me-maybe-carly-rae-jepsen-a...
tta 6y ago
Slides 12 and 13 here should help: https://aphyr.com/media/talk.pdf https://aphyr.com/media/talk.pdf
- reitanqild 6y ago
  That is a 403 for me, and based on aphyr's answer above that's OK with me.
jdwithit 6y ago
IIRC it’s a joke referencing the pop song “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen and the unreliability of many of the systems he tests.
aphyr 6y ago
For legal reasons, Jepsen, the series on distributed database safety, has nothing to do with any other thing, place, person, or concept.
- aphyr 6y ago
  It's like HN is trying to get me in legal trouble today. Y'all are exhausting. Stop.
  - reitanqild 6y ago
    Sorry I didn't realize it before To my defence I did stop immediately once I understood. Oh, and by the way: thanks for your work!
ivanfon 6y ago
There's an old Jepsen post that used to be referencing that song, but it looks like it's been modified/renamed now: https://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb https://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb (you can still see it in the url)
- amyjess 6y ago
  When I first discovered aphyr's site, all of the test articles began with "Call Me Maybe:" rather than "Jepsen:", and then one day all the articles were renamed. I've always suspected he changed it for legal reasons, and his comment elsewhere in this thread pretty much confirms it.
takeda 6y ago
Yes, it started as a hobby and turned into a business, but yes, the song is the inspiration. It basically was testing distributed systems with network partitioning (i.e. services not calling back etc) https://aphyr.com/posts/281-jepsen-on-the-perils-of-network-partitions https://aphyr.com/posts/281-jepsen-on-the-perils-of-network-... https://aphyr.com/posts/281-call-me-maybe-carly-rae-jepsen-and-the-perils-of-network-partitions https://aphyr.com/posts/281-call-me-maybe-carly-rae-jepsen-a...

cp9 6y ago

it's named after the Carly Rae Jepsen song "Call Me Maybe"

perlgeek 6y ago

I don't actually know, but I could imagine it's a tribute to Carly Rae Jepsen and their song "Call me maybe". I dimly recall that either Aphyr's blog or the jepsen blog was called "call me maybe" in the earlier days.

deleted 6y ago
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twunde 6y ago
Here's at least one reference to it: https://www.informationweek.com/database/the-man-who-tortures-databases/d/d-id/1111407 https://www.informationweek.com/database/the-man-who-torture... And it looks like earlier versions of the github project looked more like this: https://github.com/threadwaste/jepsen https://github.com/threadwaste/jepsen with references to the Carly Rae Jepson song in the project description in both the README and in github. Actually, it looks like the original talk (Slides: https://aphyr.com/media/jepsen-ricon-east.pdf https://aphyr.com/media/jepsen-ricon-east.pdf has multiple references) and the original blog post has a slug referring to the song https://aphyr.com/posts/281-call-me-maybe-carly-rae-jepsen-and-the-perils-of-network-partitions https://aphyr.com/posts/281-call-me-maybe-carly-rae-jepsen-a...

tta 6y ago

Slides 12 and 13 here should help: https://aphyr.com/media/talk.pdf https://aphyr.com/media/talk.pdf

reitanqild 6y ago
That is a 403 for me, and based on aphyr's answer above that's OK with me.

jdwithit 6y ago

IIRC it’s a joke referencing the pop song “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen and the unreliability of many of the systems he tests.

aphyr 6y ago

For legal reasons, Jepsen, the series on distributed database safety, has nothing to do with any other thing, place, person, or concept.

aphyr 6y ago
It's like HN is trying to get me in legal trouble today. Y'all are exhausting. Stop.
- reitanqild 6y ago
  Sorry I didn't realize it before To my defence I did stop immediately once I understood. Oh, and by the way: thanks for your work!

ivanfon 6y ago

There's an old Jepsen post that used to be referencing that song, but it looks like it's been modified/renamed now: https://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb https://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb (you can still see it in the url)

amyjess 6y ago
When I first discovered aphyr's site, all of the test articles began with "Call Me Maybe:" rather than "Jepsen:", and then one day all the articles were renamed. I've always suspected he changed it for legal reasons, and his comment elsewhere in this thread pretty much confirms it.

takeda 6y ago

Yes, it started as a hobby and turned into a business, but yes, the song is the inspiration. It basically was testing distributed systems with network partitioning (i.e. services not calling back etc) https://aphyr.com/posts/281-jepsen-on-the-perils-of-network-partitions https://aphyr.com/posts/281-jepsen-on-the-perils-of-network-... https://aphyr.com/posts/281-call-me-maybe-carly-rae-jepsen-and-the-perils-of-network-partitions https://aphyr.com/posts/281-call-me-maybe-carly-rae-jepsen-a...