The issue with naming conflicts arises from the fact that these things are generally created and named internally long before they're released as open source.
FWIW we've called it Atlas internally for years.
And RIPE Atlas [0], an Internet measurement network.
Everyone wants to name their product after a figure in Greco-Roman mythology, but there are only so many, and the cool ones are already taken. Same thing happened in investment funds, then they started naming things after trees, rocks, and fortifications.
That's why I've taken to calling out full names now, like "Hashicorp's Atlas", because yes, it's a mess.
Really, we should have opensourced it as com.netflix.atlas :)
-roy rapoport
It's their only product without its own domain name