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It's interesting to me that many of the non-AWS products they list under "it's like" have equally incomprehensible names. API Gateway Should have been called:
by AdamH12113 3y ago
It's interesting to me that many of the non-AWS products they list under "it's like" have equally incomprehensible names.
API Gateway
Should have been called: API Proxy
It's like: 3Scale
SNS
Should have been called: Amazon Messenger
It's like: UrbanAirship, Twilio
Kinesis
Should have been called: Amazon High-Throughput
It's like: Kafka
(It always gets me that someone actually named a large software product "Kafka".)
- commandlinefan 3y agoIt makes me wonder too how many of these actually _are_ the "it's like". For example, I know that Elasticache actually is redis or memcached... makes me wonder if Kinesis isn't actually Kafka rebranded.
- jolux 3y agoPretty sure it's not Kafka. Kafka is way more complicated than Kinesis is and has a completely different API.
- hiyer 3y agoIt's not. Kinesis was around before Kafka became the de-facto tool for data streaming. AWS has a separate managed Kafka service called MSK, which came much later.
- fouc 3y agoKafka was made at Linkedin and then opensourced in Jan 2011, almost 3 years before AWS Kinesis (Dec 2013).
- remus 3y agoI guess the point is not that other companies also have products with unrelated names, but if you happen to be familiar with Y then saying "Amazon x is just Amazon's version of Y" is very succinct.
- extraduder_ire 3y ago> Kafka Same. Though, I forget what it is since I heard about it. Now I think it's funny that it could refer to either cruel bureaucracy or turning into a bug.