[HN Gopher] Rust in Production: Qovery
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Rust in Production: Qovery
Author : aroccoli
Score : 106 points
Date : 2021-08-10 14:17 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| pojon wrote:
| How hard is it to set up build caches? Does anyone have working
| examples for toy projects?
| staticassertion wrote:
| It's pretty simple to use sccache, which is what we do.
| rhooke wrote:
| I'm not sure what you mean by a build cache, does sccache suit?
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| https://github.com/mozilla/sccache
| icholy wrote:
| Unfortunate name ...
| aroccoli wrote:
| Why so?
| aaaaaaaaaaab wrote:
| Q is conventionally folowed by U.
| abainbridge wrote:
| I read it as Q ovary, which after a moments thought my brain
| turned into queer ovary (taking inspiration from the Q in
| LGBTQ). That still didn't make any sense.
| matesz wrote:
| Best resource I could find on picking names for
| products/company name is "Hello, My Name Is Awesome" by
| Alexandra Watkins. I really recommend it to anyone struggling
| to find a good name.
|
| In short it talkes about 5 qualities of a good name and 7
| qualities of a bad name.
|
| IMO name Qovery for sure touches on 1 bad quality:
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| * spelling challanged - que-overy, it should be pronounced
| Covery right?
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| After some time, it doesn't sound that bad, it's just that
| this Q and o look unnatural next to each other. BTW.
| Alexandra ripped apart people saying "Google" is a good name
| - no it isn't :) we just got used to it
| taeric wrote:
| The argument that Google is actually a bad name... Kind of
| cuts the argument heavily. I'd assume Kleenex hits the bad
| points, as well... Xerox?
|
| Now, if the point is that the name can be bad, but that it
| likely won't impact success, I can agree with that. Reminds
| me of the penny arcade about the Wii.
| olvy0 wrote:
| Or you can do as Erlich Bachman did! [0]
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| [0] https://youtu.be/Gj0o8m5lBbk?t=165
| mytailorisrich wrote:
| 'Google' does not hit any of her 7 bad traits.
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| It does not hit her good traits either because it does not
| mean anything. But that's not necessarily bad for branding
| because it lets you start with a blank slate and you are
| free to give it any meaning. It's like learning a new word,
| which is exactly what happened with Google.
|
| In fact, many of the strongest brands have names similar to
| Google's: They don't really mean or evoke anything by
| themselves. It's branding that made them mean a lot to us.
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| Nike, Adidas, Mercedes, BMW, Apple, etc. If you never heard
| of them in your life you would have no idea and they would
| evoke nothing to you (or worse, evoke something completely
| different in the case of Apple and perhaps Mercedes).
|
| All in all, I think the most important is to avoid hitting
| bad traits and negative interpretations. I think 'Qovery'
| may not be great because of spelling and pronunciation,
| indeed.
| ecshafer wrote:
| What are you talking about?
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| Google is an extremely large number, Google/Googol was
| often in those "fun facts books", very apt for a company
| that searches and index the unimaginably large amount of
| websites.
|
| Nike is the greek goddess of victory, very good for a
| company that is about sportswear.
|
| BMW is Bayerische Motoren Werke, so a location and motor
| works, they make cars. that makes a lot of sense.
|
| Mercedes is a semi common Woman's name (and used to be
| more common) named after a guy's daughter. Apple is the
| fruit.
|
| So I will give you Mercedes and Apple, but the other ones
| were really awful examples of names that don't mean
| anything.
| mytailorisrich wrote:
| Ah yes, Bayerische Motoren Werke, what everyone obviously
| understands when they hear 'BMW'... Silly me.
|
| The reality is that BMW means exactly nothing to people
| apart from the meaning the branding assigned to it, which
| is "great German cars". Most car brands are like that,
| actually.
|
| The same goes for the other brands I mentioned. As a word
| 'Google' is no more meaningful than 'Yahoo' for 99.9% of
| the population (no-one knows what a Googol is). It means
| what the branding and product have made it mean to the
| point that it became a verb.
| nonameiguess wrote:
| Is this some kind of generational thing? Doc Brown
| talking about "jiga" watts and "1 in a googolplex" were
| memes before there were memes:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVsWikJ09Dk
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| Yahoo also definitely has a meaning.
| pests wrote:
| That's what BMW means? TIL. Nor do I know it's a location
| or a motor works.... how would I?
| belter wrote:
| BMW was/is at the essence an Airplane Motor Company:-)
| They put some car around the motor...
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_BMW
|
| That is why the logo looks like a propeller if you look
| carefully.
| Santosh83 wrote:
| It's unsure exactly how to pronounce it. And because of that,
| there is also the risk you could misspell it.
| azangru wrote:
| /'k^v@ri/ ?
| cdcarter wrote:
| Yea, super weird name....
| hu3 wrote:
| > As of today, Qovery CLI (CLI used by devs to interact with
| Qovery) and Pleco (a tool allowing us to clean old cloud
| resources) are written in Go, and Qovery backend is mostly
| written with Kotlin.
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| This is great engineering. Sensible use of technology.
| dom_hutton wrote:
| Spoke to the founder recently chasing a job there, great team and
| a great attitude. Talented people should reach out!
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