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BERT, ElMO et al were Sesame street characters, hence they kept the theme going.
by bobosha 6y ago
BERT, 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.