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Cloud Naming Convention (2019)

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Re: Cloud Naming Convention (2019)

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post #14

Resource types in the name is a pet peeve of mine. They should not be part of the name. An RDS instance can never be anything other than a database, no need for 'database' or 'db' or 'rds' in the name. Likewise a Kubernetes cluster can never be anything other than a k8s cluster. It doesn't need 'cluster' suffix. Terraform makes this redundancy especially obvious because you already include the type in any references…

How do you feel about Hungarian notation?

Possibly useful in dynamically typed languages. Definitely not useful at all in statically typed languages. And cloud resources are equivalent to statically typed - you cant turn an EC2 instance into an Elastic Load Balancer, for instance -- it's only ever one or the other.

Re: Cloud Naming Convention (2019)

#32
post #11

I was disappointed that this article was not about naming actual clouds.

Ha! I was similarly disappointed. But you might find this a good starting point, if you've not come across it before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cloud_Atlas

No more reliance on GPS for me!
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