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Thursday, March 15, 2007 Link / Comments (4)

Wussypants.

The following quote was plucked from a recent web development e-mail. “When building a new [server] farm, create better server names ... WUS is like naming a boy Sue.” Here’s the deal ... the internal names for Veer’s web servers are prefixed with the acronym ‘WUS’, theoretically representing ‘Web: United States’ or our North American-based web servers. I’ve always referred to the servers ‘wuss-oh-one’ or ‘wuss-oh-three’, but it wasn’t until this e-mail that I realized how dumb the naming really was. Makes we wonder how we’ve named our proxy servers.

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Monday, March 19, 2007 6:21:00 AM Link

Anonymous Victor says:

Booooring.

Our production machines are named after mountains - we have a long list of all the peaks above 10,000? ft in North America and just pull names off of it. Come up with an interesting and memorable naming convention and people will remember the names better than an acronym.  

Monday, March 19, 2007 8:47:00 PM Link

Blogger Grant Hutchinson says:

No need to convince me, Victor. But it seems that I’m working with a group of technically adept, yet acronym addled developers and operations people. Every server name on the network is suffering from the same initials-only nomenclature. Personally, I blame it on our reliance on Active Directory Services.  

Sunday, March 25, 2007 6:16:00 AM Link

Anonymous Neil says:

We name our servers at work after strange animals or if you like, the Mac OS versions.  

Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:14:00 AM Link

Blogger Grant Hutchinson says:

I don't think there is going to be much movement to change the way we've named our servers. It would be like trying to get the technology team to switch from a Microsoft development platform to a Linux-based one. Like pulling teeth. Thanks for the suggestions, though.  

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