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(Founder) well 50% of our name is different
by shikhar 2y ago
(Founder) well 50% of our name is different
- ozim 2y agoI would look much more into Levenshtein Distance ;) if I would like to be smart ass funny.
- do_not_redeem 2y agoYou should have gone with S4 tbh. The suits love bigger numbers. Super Simple Stream Store.
- shikhar 2y ago(Founder) I have definitely received that advice before :) - to not seem like a regression from S3. But as an abbreviation for Stream Store, it made sense.
- blipvert 2y agoWhy not just use SS? There can’t possibly be any negative connotations there.
- edoceo 2y agoReserved by GM for the Super Sport
- ethbr1 2y agoSo that's why GM has been asking itself "Are we the baddies?" lately.
- HideousKojima 2y agoYou could even make the s look kind of like a lightning bolt to emphasize how fast it is
- debuggerpk 2y agoSS .. as in nazi?
- rswail 2y agoS3++?
- smitty1e 2y agoDisagree. You have a marketing opportunity for a hipster character named "Stu" to be the spokesman.
- jaredwiener 2y agoDisco Stu don't advertise
- phamilton 2y agohttp://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ exists and calls itself S4. It's a decent gag and the immediately came to mind when I heard S2 vs S3.
- nsxwolf 2y agoHow do you store a stream? Don’t they just spray around the internet here and there, and if you don’t catch them in the moment, they’re just gone?
- shikhar 2y ago(Founder) I thought you were joking but coming back it could well be serious :) When we say stream, we really mean The Log that Jay Kreps has a famous blog about https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha... We say stream because we would rather not be confused with "logs" as in application logs, but rather associate with the world of streaming data where this primitive is very relevant. We don't mean stream as in a TCP stream or live stream. You can, however stream Star Wars on S2 ;-) https://s2.dev/docs/quickstart#get-started-with-the-cli https://s2.dev/docs/quickstart#get-started-with-the-cli
- rswail 2y agoSurely S3++? /s
- binary132 2y agoYou're 50% of the way closer to 1st!
- iambateman 2y agoProps to you for having a sense of humor about it. :D If I could put in one request...a video which describes what it is and how to use it would make it easier for me to understand.
- shikhar 2y ago(Founder) Yes we should create a video, thanks for the feedback. In the meantime, checkout this quickstart which will have to streaming Star Wars with the S2 CLI and give you a pretty good sense of things https://s2.dev/docs/quickstart#get-started-with-the-cli https://s2.dev/docs/quickstart#get-started-with-the-cli (You will have to apply to join the preview, but we are approving quickly)
- joenot443 2y agoI like it. I see it as ostensibly a product for engineers and so when I see a name like S2 it's immediately clear that it's a product led and conceived by engineers. I also see that on your pricing page - "We are building the S3 experience for streaming data, and that includes pricing transparency" Love the simple and earnest copy. One can imagine what an LLM would cook up instead, I find the brevity way preferable.
- shikhar 2y ago(Founder) Thank you for the kind comment! Yes we are not trying to confuse S2 with S3, we just think S3 is the best damn serverless experience out there, and we aspire to that greatness. We borrowed the structure of that name to reflect that aspiration, as have other services inspired by S3 like Cloudflare's object store R2.
- _w1tm 2y agoI actually thought S2 is a Cloudflare service at first.
- davej 2y agoYour 66.66% (2/3) of the way there to the second character too. So I would say your only 16.66% different across the two characters.
- CobrastanJorji 2y agoYou could say that. Or, in binary ASCII, you could say your name is 93.75% the same (it flips only the last bit of 16).