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> Jay Kreps chose to name the software after the author Franz Kafka because it is "a system optimized for writing", and he liked Kafka's work. From Wikipedia.
by isaacremuant 1y ago
> Jay Kreps chose to name the software after the author Franz Kafka because it is "a system optimized for writing", and he liked Kafka's work.
From Wikipedia.
- atombender 1y agoA system optimized for writing could also describe the machine in Kafka's "In the Penal Colony".
- clippy99 1y agoKafkaesque to configure and get running for simple tasks.
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- physicles 1y agoThat’s funny, I assumed it was called Kafka because the act of processing items in a queue over and over could be described as kafkaesque.