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Is that the Turkish word "Zıpkın" (harpoon)?

• obilgic 14y ago
  I guess. just checked the commit history, no one is turkish there. Possibly git history might have been cleared before making it public.
  • skr 14y ago
    We came up with the name by putting all kinds of words into Google translate and making sure they weren't trademarked. Zipkin seemed short and sweet and wasn't widely used before.
• cmelbye 14y ago
  Well, the logo of the project is a harpoon, so it's a safe bet.
• Mongoose 14y ago
  Zipkin -> Harpoon -> whale-killing http://www.joeydevilla.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/mind-blown.gif http://www.joeydevilla.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012...