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A well-known commercial storage vendor gives their system releases codenames from beer brands. We had Becks, Guinnes, Longboard, Voodoo Ranger, and many others. Presumably what the devs drank during that release cycle, or something ;-)

It's fun for the developers and the end-users alike... So no, it's not limited to GPU enthusiasts at all. Everyone likes codenames :)

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Are you referring to NetApp?

indeed :)

> Everyone likes codenames :)

Except butt-headed astronomers

https://www.engadget.com/2014-02-26-when-carl-sagan-sued-app... if you miss the ref

I mean, living people seems like a dick move in general for codenames.

That’s what we make sure our codenames are sensible things like Jimmy Carter and James Earl Jones

We were actually told to change our internal names for our servers after someone named an AWS instance “stupid” and I rolled my eyes so hard, one dev ruined the fun for everyone.

I mean, sure, for a lot of the same reasons you can't file a defamation claim in defense of someone who's dead. The idea of them is in the public domain in a lot of ways.

So sure, pour one out to whoever's funeral is on the grocery store tabloids that week with your codenames.

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