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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)

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Post by onesandofgrain »

xnickb wrote: post #7
fnoef wrote: post #6

This 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?

Maybe they should spend more time keeping their servers from crashing lol, and less on nameserver-namings

Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)

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Post by Galorious »

fnoef wrote: post #6

This 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?

Common names are much easier for people to copy over and check. As opposed to a random jumble of numbers and letters.

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Post by whstl »

fnoef wrote: post #6

This 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?

As someone slightly older than average here, one of the perks of maturity for me is not caring much about what others think anymore. Childish or cringe are fine.

But I don’t judge you: being a teenager or a young adult and rejecting such things is a rite of passage that we all go through.

Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)

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Post by CodesInChaos »

whstl wrote: post #13
fnoef wrote: post #6

This 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?

As someone slightly older than average here, one of the perks of maturity for me is not caring much about what others think anymore. Childish or cringe are fine. But I don’t judge you: being a teenager or a young adult and rejecting such things is a rite of passage that we all go through.

> When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

― C.S. Lewis

Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)

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Post by fnoef »

xnickb wrote: post #7
fnoef wrote: post #6

This 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?

The wrong in this, is the extent they went to with this. I mean, name your servers whatever you want, but hiring an artist to draw the servers personalities and then writing a blog post about this? Like common, that's something a child would do about their favorite toy. At some point, people need to grow up.

And I guess the other "wrong with it" is the fact that it just wastes human potential. Build robust software and take pride in this, not it naming your servers bob and lola.

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Post by chuckadams »

fnoef wrote: post #15
xnickb wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

The wrong in this, is the extent they went to with this. I mean, name your servers whatever you want, but hiring an artist to draw the servers personalities and then writing a blog post about this? Like common, that's something a child would do about their favorite toy. At some point, people need to grow up. And I guess the other "wrong with it" is the fact that it just wastes human potential. Build robust software a…

I reject your joyless reality and substitute my own.

Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)

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Post by majke »

If you want to know more about the cache invalidation in the whole pipeline of DNS requests, take a look at this

https://blog.cloudflare.com/tld-glue-sticks-around-too-long/

I hinted there how the NS chain of lookups works from . to your domain. The point is that we wanted to be able to move name servers around the ip addresss, but that wouldn't work for many domains. So - in some contexts moving IP's rapidly is possible, in some it's not. Fun.

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