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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.
"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.
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Exactly, they weren't proactive. Wasting their time on useless fanfiction.
Yeah, I'm sure they've spent a significant time of their whole engineering department in the 13 years since the blog post on this!
Just make it a uuid or some other kind of random a-z0-9 string to avoid all this whimsy and nuisance?
> Yeah if I'm not mistaken the ticketing service is deployed on t56kl-293d1-5gqp7, do you think we should move it to iwi49-oaqq0-492fa?
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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 soci…
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.