How did Fluentd get its name? It’s a query I just lately puzzled about the cloud-native log aggregator and knowledge collector for Kubernetes clusters.
So, Fluentd helps to combination distributed streams of information in a cloud-native setting. A stream is a fluid that strikes. Thus, fluent is a intelligent name for a project that manages streaming knowledge. But the project name is Fluentd, not fluent.
Fluentd runs as a daemon job on Kubernetes nodes. So, it is not a huge logical leap to assume the appended “d” merely stands for “daemon.” A fast Google for the etymology of the project name confirmed these suspicions.
Kiyoto Tamura, Fluentd contributor and vp of selling for Treasure Data, said in a GitHub Gist, “Its preliminary name was Fluent, with the intent that this software program ought to make streaming knowledge from sources to sinks extra ‘fluent.'”
How to name a project
However, the contributors who named the project rapidly realized there was a huge disambiguation drawback. People who search the time period fluent have been sometimes wanting to be taught a new language, not stream knowledge. “If you seek for ‘fluent,’ you get a bazillion hyperlinks to Rosetta Stone apps and their siblings. Fluency is most intently related to pure languages,” wrote Tamura.
One of the most necessary components in the adoption of a new expertise is the ease with which new customers can resolve issues and grasp the device. But with a severe search engine ambiguity difficulty, the authors of the project determined to comply with the Unix customized of appending the letter “d” to the name of a daemon course of. The name Fluentd was born.
“This made it a lot simpler to discover it in the Internet’s huge sea of knowledge,” said Tamura.
The resolution to change the project name from Fluent to Fluentd was a easy however important one. And it’s definitely a lesson for creators looking for a new project name.
My drawback with Web Components
I bumped into this naming difficulty about three years in the past. Enticed by a presentation Adam Bien delivered on Web Components at JavaOne, I wished to comply with up on the expertise and see if it might resolve a few of the challenges I had when creating single-page applications (SPA) with JavaScript or jQuery.
When making an attempt to conjure up a intelligent and catchy new project name, ensure that the result’s unambiguous and search-engine pleasant.
Unfortunately, each internet growth framework created in the final 20 years has described itself as a internet part-based structure. At the time, outcomes from even the most simple search engine queries pertaining to Web Components generated inaccurate outcomes. When I searched how to create an SPA with Web Components, the outcomes would simply as seemingly be about AngularJS or Servlets and JSPs as they might the Web Components expertise itself. The expertise was so irritating I gave up on the expertise and selected to be taught AngularJS.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is a key adoption issue. New customers want to have the option to discover product help and group assist. When making an attempt to conjure up a intelligent and catchy new project name, ensure that the result’s unambiguous and search-engine pleasant. This will considerably assist drive public enthusiasm to your project.
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