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I had a lot of fun reading the articles about Gas Town although I started to lose track of the odd naming. Only odd because they make sense to Steve and others

I had a lot of fun reading the articles about Gas Town although I started to lose track of the odd naming. Only odd because they make sense to Steve and others who have seen the Mad Max, Water World movies. I promptly gave Claude the text to the articles and had him rewrite using idiomatic distributed systems naming. Fun times!

fragmede 9mo ago
Care to share that with the rest of the class? I'd love to hear what those idiomatic distributed systems namings are!
- dgunay 9mo ago
  Ran it through ChatGPT: Town = Central orchestrator / control plane Rig = Project or workspace namespace Polecat = Ephemeral worker job Refinery = Merge queue manager Witness = Worker health monitor Crew = Persistent worker pool Beads = Persistent work items / tasks Hooks = Work queues / task slots GUPP = Work processing guarantee Molecules/Wisps = Structured, persistent workflows Convoys = Grouped feature work units https://chatgpt.com/share/695c6216-e7a4-800d-b83d-fc1a22fd8a9c https://chatgpt.com/share/695c6216-e7a4-800d-b83d-fc1a22fd8a...
  - fragmede 9mo ago
    Thank you! Is this the future? Everyone gets to have their own cutesy translation of everything? If I want "kubectl apply" to have a Tron theme, while my coworker wants a Disney theme. Is the runbook going to be in Klingon if I'm fluent in that?
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    - dgunay 9mo ago
      I hope not. Homebrew is a great example of why boring tools shouldn't invent quirky terminology.