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By the way: where does the Jepsen name come from?

I have wondered more than once and my browsing and searching skills are failing me on this one.

Edit: The closest link I can find is "Call me maybe" but I am not able to find a causation or even a direct link or mention for now.

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For legal reasons, Jepsen, the series on distributed database safety, has nothing to do with any other thing, place, person, or concept.

It's like HN is trying to get me in legal trouble today. Y'all are exhausting. Stop.

Sorry I didn't realize it before

To my defence I did stop immediately once I understood.

Oh, and by the way: thanks for your work!

Yes, it started as a hobby and turned into a business, but yes, the song is the inspiration. It basically was testing distributed systems with network partitioning (i.e. services not calling back etc)

https://aphyr.com/posts/281-jepsen-on-the-perils-of-network-...

https://aphyr.com/posts/281-call-me-maybe-carly-rae-jepsen-a...

IIRC it’s a joke referencing the pop song “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen and the unreliability of many of the systems he tests.

I don't actually know, but I could imagine it's a tribute to Carly Rae Jepsen and their song "Call me maybe".

I dimly recall that either Aphyr's blog or the jepsen blog was called "call me maybe" in the earlier days.

Here's at least one reference to it: https://www.informationweek.com/database/the-man-who-torture... And it looks like earlier versions of the github project looked more like this: https://github.com/threadwaste/jepsen with references to the Carly Rae Jepson song in the project description in both the README and in github.

Actually, it looks like the original talk (Slides: https://aphyr.com/media/jepsen-ricon-east.pdf has multiple references) and the original blog post has a slug referring to the song https://aphyr.com/posts/281-call-me-maybe-carly-rae-jepsen-a...

Slides 12 and 13 here should help: https://aphyr.com/media/talk.pdf

That is a 403 for me, and based on aphyr's answer above that's OK with me.

There's an old Jepsen post that used to be referencing that song, but it looks like it's been modified/renamed now: https://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb

(you can still see it in the url)

When I first discovered aphyr's site, all of the test articles began with "Call Me Maybe:" rather than "Jepsen:", and then one day all the articles were renamed.

I've always suspected he changed it for legal reasons, and his comment elsewhere in this thread pretty much confirms it.

it's named after the Carly Rae Jepsen song "Call Me Maybe"

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