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The fact that this is such a common phenomenon supports the argument that programming is pop culture, and it validates the complaints of so many of us curmudgeo
by yakshaving_jgt 4y ago
The fact that this is such a common phenomenon supports the argument that programming is pop culture, and it validates the complaints of so many of us curmudgeons.
- Spivak 4y agoKafka, Redis, Rabbit, Mongo, Kubernetes, Django, Ubuntu, Python, Ruby, Java, Spark, Airflow. I think you can forgive people for naming things abstractly because they don’t want to shoehorn them into a specific purpose. Calling your company’s app something vague like Fulgur rather than API makes it so you can avoid the “yes we know it’s called API but due to historical reasons it also handles some batch processing.”
- yakshaving_jgt 4y agoI think there has to be a distinction between names chosen for the purposes of marketing vs names chosen for labelling internal systems.
- hrpnk 4y agoTrue that. You also want to be able to rebrand the external name multiple times – easy to do with public APIs via DNS aliases to the old one.