What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
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What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
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Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#2"Naming strategies for servers" seems like a big enough niche for there to exist a compendium somewhere already, but I couldn't find a good one.
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#3As always https://xkcd.com/910/
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#4"Naming strategies for servers" seems like a big enough niche for there to exist a compendium somewhere already, but I couldn't find a good one.
I always refer to https://namingschemes.com/Main_Page
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#5Just make it a uuid or some other kind of random a-z0-9 string to avoid all this whimsy and nuisance?
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#6This is so cringe. I feel like software engineers are just overgrown toddlers stuck in kindergarten: "We named our servers with boy and girls names and hired an artist to draw their personalities as ninjas!!@!111". I mean, whats wrong with a plain old 4 character hash or whatever?
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#7This is so cringe. I feel like software engineers are just overgrown toddlers stuck in kindergarten: "We named our servers with boy and girls names and hired an artist to draw their personalities as ninjas!!@!111". I mean, whats wrong with a plain old 4 character hash or whatever?
What's wrong with this? They have resources and desire to make their work fun. What happened to wanting to enjoy what you're doing?
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#8Just make it a uuid or some other kind of random a-z0-9 string to avoid all this whimsy and nuisance?
What's wrong with whimsy?
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#9"Naming strategies for servers" seems like a big enough niche for there to exist a compendium somewhere already, but I couldn't find a good one.
I always refer to https://namingschemes.com/Main_Page
Could do with having Minecraft Blocks instead of just Minecraft Materials, that's what I use for my home network