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Kraken, not to be confused with the Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency exchange.

Also not to be confused with the GUI git client "gitkraken"

Or the botnet that appeared and disappeared in a few hours back in 2008.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken_botnet?wprov=sfla1

Or the php framework. Or kraken.js. Or the responsive css boilerplate. Or the API gateway (KrakenD). Or the Joomla theme. Or the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) affiliate program.

I just had a talk last week with my coworker about how many tech projects seem to be called Kraken and BAM, here's another.

Same as projects call Phoenix.

Or the commonly used bioinformatics tool "kraken" which is used to predict the species a bit of DNA came from (useful in metagenomic studies of the microbiome or environment where a sample may contain DNA from thousands of organisms) https://ccb.jhu.edu/software/kraken/

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