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Pick the nearest airport? Or a nearby airport? Airport in the location's capital city? There's always an airport[0]. The purpose is to have a Schelling point t

Pick the nearest airport? Or a nearby airport? Airport in the location's capital city? There's always an airport[0]. The purpose is to have a Schelling point that bypasses any tedious weeks-long arguments. Otherwise your Frankfurt datacenter gets named "ceurope" because the London datacenter got "europe" first, or you named the Ohio datacenter "east" and there's a fight about whether to call the new Virginia datacenter "easter". [0] If you're building a submerged datacenter in the middle of the Atlantic then ... well, do your best.

jmbwell 3y ago
Yeah see, it doesn’t necessarily solve any of these problems. If you have to do all this guesswork or refer to documentation anyway, maybe just use the human readable and immediately interpretable name of the town the DC is in. Increment a number for each new DC in the area. No cognitive hoops to jump through.
- dsr_ 3y ago
  How many Springfields in the US? (65ish) How many San Joses in the world? (1700ish) Pennsylvania has two Baldwins, two Whitehalls and two Elizabeths.
bee_rider 3y ago
“I know we’re physically closer to BDL, but I think we’re culturally closer to JFK and, come on, you know the name is cooler,” says the guy determined to reintroduce bikesheding into the naming process.
- derefr 3y ago
  There's only one good "closer to" for these purposes, and that's "by packet latency." The prefix is basically the location of the carrier hotel that serves your DC.
  - bee_rider 3y ago
    This seems to just shift the problem to mapping an airport to the carrier hotel, though?
TRiG_Ireland 3y ago
Got it. No data centre in Andorra.