Comment on puns
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Not exactly the same but I remember starting my software engineering course and having to remote into the university servers to write code. All the servers were named after Red Dwarf characters. Being a career changer, as soon as I saw the server names I had this calming feeling that I’d finally found my people.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My dad was never at university, but he was a unix admin for ages. his naming conventions for clusters?
Star Wars characters. Red Dwarf Characters. Star trek characters. Asimov’s robots. and apparently, his annoying bosses. (For the troublesome clusters.)
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
I’ve heard it’s a “pets vs cattle” thing. When you have a small fleet of distinct servers, you name them. When you have a thousand interchangeable boxes, you give them systematic IDs.
Or you scale up to a franchise with a large enough cast. I wonder if anyone uses One Piece character names for servers?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It kind of also depends on how you interact with them- some clusters are interacted with by admin as a single entity; those got names even if they technically represented lots of rackspace; or the hardware that’s running specific groupings of services.
Like a databases. (Darth Vader was reserved for databases that logged and tracked errors… aka other systems that were, uh, rebellions.)
XTL@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
You give systematic id’s to completely interchangable things. You give unique names to unique things.
If you name a formal thing (like a physical computer) by its function you have failed at naming. And are probably a manager who doesn’t see that one day you’ll need many things of almost the same function and to tell them apart. Or that one thing will have many functions.
send_me_your_ink@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
To anyone reading this and not getting it. When your pet gets sick you take care of it (named special servers/other machines). When a cow in the feed lot gets sick you…replace it.