"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
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)
#42I started on a new team once and I was integrating some CloudFlare services, I hooked a domain name and I was assigned a nameserver with my lastname and one with my new manager's lastname... nobody ever believed I did not picked those, people still joke about a love story that involves a manager, myself and CloudFlare.
You are not Woz, right?
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#43"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
Good to see I'm probably not the only one who worked with a monstrous single database for all the things named "Yggdrasil", and a job server that was seemingly constantly trying to take it down named "Nidhogg".
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#44A surprising amount of infrastructure design seems to be hiding patterns that humans will otherwise turn into unsupported features
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#45Earlier 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…
Sure, not using a naming scheme and not hiring the artist would have unlocked the potential to make their software soooo much more robust…
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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
> When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. ― 1 Corinthians 13:11
I'm quite sure C.S. Lewis was referencing that explicitly.
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#47I started on a new team once and I was integrating some CloudFlare services, I hooked a domain name and I was assigned a nameserver with my lastname and one with my new manager's lastname... nobody ever believed I did not picked those, people still joke about a love story that involves a manager, myself and CloudFlare.
Somewhere in Cloudflare's DNS system, a random number generator briefly became the office matchmaker
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#48Earlier 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…
The only way to properly realize human potential is to have no fun when doing your work? Are you really sure you want to live in a world like that?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
The only way to properly realize human potential is to have no fun when doing your work? Are you really sure you want to live in a world like that?
There are different grades of "fun". You can do silly things at work, name your servers bob and lola, while still serve the functionality and needs of your customers. But hiring an artist to draw the server as ninjas because "they protect our customers"? What kind of value does that bring? And then you write a blog post about it? Seriously?
Knowing when the fun needs to stop is a way to create valuable things in society. I prefer that, compared to living in world where the state of software is so dire because developers are overgrown kids that spend time writing blog posts about how they named their server pikachu because "pikachu is soooooo cute!!!1111"
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Sure, not using a naming scheme and not hiring the artist would have unlocked the potential to make their software soooo much more robust…
It's not the single act, but the compound effect of millions of such acts across the entire industry.