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McRib is a hilarious name for a service

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I certainly wouldn't trust it's availability.

(The original McDonald's McRib sandwich is well known for only being sold a limited time.)

So "Mcrouter" comes from Memcache-Router, then the obvious McDonalds jokes are made and someone cleverly suggests "Mcrib" for the next service. But I can't think what the backronym would be for it. Memcache Ring Buffer maybe. Or Broker.

memcache router interface broker

Apparently it generates configurations for Mcrouter. Could be MemCache-Router Instance Borker.

I think you meant Broker, but the misspelling is an act of genius since we are talking about downtime caused by an infrastructure failure.

And I misread it as McBorker and now I can't stop chuckling.

McBorker, Chaos Monkey's cousin.

Does it make it less of an act of genius if it was intentional?

No it’s be more an act of genius then. I think I meant something like serendipity.

RIB is a common term in networking for "Routing Information Base" (being the set of all routes which could be chosen to be installed in the routing table (or FIB -- "Forwarding") by the control plane. I don't know that this is the actual etymology but it's not implausible.

They had to know when they picked that name. If workers at Slack actually pronounce it like "Ehm See Rib" or, forbid it, "Ehm See Ahr Eye Bee" and not "McRib", I have very little interest in working there.

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