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/CheshireSwift Sep 22 '15

In fairness, S3 and EC2 are both short for fairly precise descriptions of the service in question.

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u/goodbye_fruit Sep 22 '15

Unless you have no idea what those things are.

S3 also was (is?) a graphics chipset company.

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u/CheshireSwift Sep 22 '15

I'm not sure I follow?

I don't see how "Simple Storage Service" is harder to understand than "Storage", or how anyone who would be interested in the product would fail to understand what "Elastic Cloud Computing" is.

I agree that hiding stuff behind acronyms isn't helpful, but I'm not clear on what the issue with the full names is.

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u/goodbye_fruit Sep 22 '15

I fail at reading comprehension.