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Tangential point but why is it that so often these leaving the cloud posts use the word "beefy" to describe the servers? It's always you don't need cloud becaus

by dematz 1y ago

Tangential point but why is it that so often these leaving the cloud posts use the word "beefy" to describe the servers? It's always you don't need cloud because beefy servers handle pretty much any bla bla bla https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=beefy&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... If anyone from oxide computer or similar is reading, maybe you should rebrand to BEEFY server inc...

fsckboy 1y ago
>Tangential point... rebrand to BEEFY server idea for an ad campaign: "mmm, beefy!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ImwKMRq98&t=21s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ImwKMRq98&t=21s i don't know how "worldwide" is the distribution of Chef "Boyardee" canned spaghetti (which today is not too good), but the founder's story is fairly interesting. He was a real Italian immigrant chef named Ettore Boiardi and he gets a lot of credit for originally evangelizing and popularizing "spaghetti" and "spaghetti sauce" in America when most people had never tried it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Boiardi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Boiardi you know, "spaghetti code..."?
gwking 1y ago
The servers are always beefy and the software is always blazingly fast. Blazingly beefy is my new joke trademark.
torginus 1y ago
Because that is a casual word in the English language to describe an object with substantial power? If you would suggest a word that would make a better substitute in this case, that could move the conversation forward, and perhaps you could improve the aesthetic quality of posts about leaving the cloud.
- saurik 1y ago
  Well, I wouldn't say I have a beefy car or a beefy sword: there's some historical bit of linguistic connection that seems to have caused people to describe a server with the adjective "beefy", rather than "powerful", "hefty", "stacked", or... "chonky" ;P. Coming up with some options, I think my favorite might be "cranked"?
  - rkomorn 1y ago
    The first definition for beefy from Merriam-Webster is: heavily and powerfully built . As someone who's had to rack some pretty heavy servers with lots of GPUs, CPUs, NVMe drives, and RAM, that turned out to be quite powerful, I'd say "beefy" is accurate. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beefy https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beefy Side note edit: hefty and chonky don't tell me much about power. Stacked is usually more about a team or group of things (and for individuals, I'd rather not see it).
  - davkan 1y ago
    I wouldn’t describe a corvette as beefy but I might call its engine beefy and i would definitely call a diesel truck beefy. I think servers, especially bare metal, are in the category of grunt and raw power. Beefy feels right.
  - airtonix 1y ago
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earthnail 1y ago
Because the server types you get for the price of a single Heroku dyno are incredibly beefy. And suddenly you need a lot less dynos. Which is quite important if you start managing them yourself.
bcantrill 1y ago
Noted!

by dematz 1y ago

fsckboy 1y ago

>Tangential point... rebrand to BEEFY server idea for an ad campaign: "mmm, beefy!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ImwKMRq98&t=21s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ImwKMRq98&t=21s i don't know how "worldwide" is the distribution of Chef "Boyardee" canned spaghetti (which today is not too good), but the founder's story is fairly interesting. He was a real Italian immigrant chef named Ettore Boiardi and he gets a lot of credit for originally evangelizing and popularizing "spaghetti" and "spaghetti sauce" in America when most people had never tried it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Boiardi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Boiardi you know, "spaghetti code..."?

gwking 1y ago

The servers are always beefy and the software is always blazingly fast. Blazingly beefy is my new joke trademark.

torginus 1y ago

Because that is a casual word in the English language to describe an object with substantial power? If you would suggest a word that would make a better substitute in this case, that could move the conversation forward, and perhaps you could improve the aesthetic quality of posts about leaving the cloud.

saurik 1y ago
Well, I wouldn't say I have a beefy car or a beefy sword: there's some historical bit of linguistic connection that seems to have caused people to describe a server with the adjective "beefy", rather than "powerful", "hefty", "stacked", or... "chonky" ;P. Coming up with some options, I think my favorite might be "cranked"?
- rkomorn 1y ago
  The first definition for beefy from Merriam-Webster is: heavily and powerfully built . As someone who's had to rack some pretty heavy servers with lots of GPUs, CPUs, NVMe drives, and RAM, that turned out to be quite powerful, I'd say "beefy" is accurate. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beefy https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beefy Side note edit: hefty and chonky don't tell me much about power. Stacked is usually more about a team or group of things (and for individuals, I'd rather not see it).
- davkan 1y ago
  I wouldn’t describe a corvette as beefy but I might call its engine beefy and i would definitely call a diesel truck beefy. I think servers, especially bare metal, are in the category of grunt and raw power. Beefy feels right.
- airtonix 1y ago
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earthnail 1y ago

Because the server types you get for the price of a single Heroku dyno are incredibly beefy. And suddenly you need a lot less dynos. Which is quite important if you start managing them yourself.

bcantrill 1y ago

Noted!