Hacker News Reader

This is either parody or the making of someone who’s never done real work.

Source: if you do this stuff or even dare to name another microservice after a Harry Potter character when 11.5 million people rely on it, I’m going to dedicate the rest of my life to having you fired from everywhere.

View on HN

Google is chock full of services with whimsical names. I’m not a fan either but I think in this industry you’re fighting a losing battle.

Tbh, I would rather a whimsical but unique and memorable name than another “tax-pool-cache-service” type of name to try and reason about.

Especially when the repo gets contorted into some other TPS service.

I've had the displeasure of depending on one such project, which means I'd need to look at it once every few months. Need to page all the vocabulary back every time.

(Actually it was a project with multiple subprojects done by different teams. So I'd need to page a different set of vocabulary every time.)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com