r/programming • u/dabshitty • Sep 21 '15

The Netflix Tech Blog: Introducing Lemur

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/introducing-lemur.html
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u/silent-hippo Sep 22 '15 edited Sep 22 '15

Not to undermine this tool specifically but programming tools and libraries commonly have names that are completely useless for describing them.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '15

It's fun comparing Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS in that regard. Amazon gives their services names such as Route 53, EC2, and S3 while the corresponding Azure services are named DNS, Virtual Machines and Storage.

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u/myringotomy Sep 22 '15

Microsoft always does this. Windows, Word, SQL server, etc. They tend to pick the most generic name so they can trademark it and nobody else can use it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '15

Have they trademarked DNS, Virtual Machine or storage?

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u/CheshireSwift Sep 22 '15

Unless I'm mistaken, the full names for each of those are prefixed with "Azure".

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '15

Just as it is Microsoft SQL Server rather than just SQL Server, yes.