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Name is a little similar to https://www.apollographql.com/ https://www.apollographql.com/
by intellix 6y ago
Name is a little similar to https://www.apollographql.com/ https://www.apollographql.com/
- verisimilidude 6y agoAlso: https://github.com/ApolloAuto/apollo https://github.com/ApolloAuto/apollo It’s a contested open source project name, for sure.
- agloeregrets 6y agoAnd let’s not forget the well-liked iOS Reddit client as well. Or the Greek god Or the moon missions. Or Counter Culture’s Light Roast beans. Basically the name is a bit tired and few actually have a reason to call it that. (Apollo the Reddit client to browse the world of Reddit which has an alien as it’s avatar almost makes sense.)
- andrewxdiamond 6y agoAmazon engineers will also recognize Apollo as something else https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2014/11/apollo-amazon-deployment-engine.html https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2014/11/apollo-amazon-d...
- christophilus 6y agoAs will old NASA astronauts.
- zoom6628 6y agoor the premium workstation of the 80s.
- iav 6y agoOr the publicly traded private equity / credit investor? Or the parent company of University of Phoenix Online? PS the private equity firm actually owns the education company since 2016... think about that confusion
- gabereiser 6y agoOr Adama from BSG? Or the short track olympic skater from US? Or Apollo.io for structured sales data? Or are we talking about Adaptive Patient-Oriented Longitudinal Learning and Optimization?
- khy 6y agoNot sure which is more overloaded: "apollo" or "spark".
- derfabianpeter 6y agoYeah sorry for naming. Did 0 research upfront. My dog is named "Apollo, I'm a not-so-creative guy, things just evolved and now here we are!