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Was it named BigBird because it is never going to fly?
by karavelov 6y ago
Was it named BigBird because it is never going to fly?
- andrewmutz 6y agoI'd guess it has more to do with predecessors ELMo and BERT
- bobosha 6y agoBERT, ElMO et al were Sesame street characters, hence they kept the theme going.
- ignoramous 6y agoFun fact: Amazon DynamoDB was codenamed Big Bird, too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21695147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21695147
- karavelov 6y agoYes, as the rest of the AWS database services it used Sesame street name. E.g. Elmo was Elastic Cache. Not flying was a joke from the early design period, I heard. At the end it took off pretty well.