Earlier quoted context omitted.
Especially since Netflix is using React pretty heavily- they must know that there's a conflict.
React is tangible and an actual product; FB's flux is a cute name for a very fuzzy concept.
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#22It's pretty amazing that the traffic was nearly entirely redirected in 20 seconds and then whatever issue that was plaguing the server was resolved so quickly.
The latter part is because it was a simulated failure using their Chaos Kong (follow their link to Chaos Experiment: http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/chaos-engineering-upgrad... ).
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#23and yet, they cannot come up with a creative name
and don't get me started on flux,relay or graphQL ...
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Surely it's because it looks like a flux capacitor. Seems reasonable to me.
Correct. Compare the image at the top of the article ( http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1UN25h8GKVw/VgxffFjqvUI/AAAAAAAAAQ... ) to http://electroshadow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/FluxCapa...
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#25Seems stupid to call it flux
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#26I want this NOW. Anyone know if they are planning on open-sourcing this project?
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#28cool! but they couldn't have thought of a different name?
http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Flux_capacitor
Perfect name if you ask me :)
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#29cool! but they couldn't have thought of a different name?
They named it flux because it looks like the Flux Capacitor. http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Flux_capacitor Perfect name if you ask me :)
Great name, but perhaps the headline could have read "Netflix Flux: ..." or "Traffic Flux: ..."
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#30I want this NOW. Anyone know if they are planning on open-sourcing this project?
Uh...you realize the visualization is probably the easiest part of this tool? Getting realtime insight into your network is the much harder problem, and you will need to implement that all yourself.