[HN Gopher] Holocron is an object storage based leader election ...
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       Holocron is an object storage based leader election library
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2024-10-02 12:09 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | dangerwill wrote:
       | A pet peeve of mine is when projects get named after proper nouns
       | from fiction for no reason. A holocron is essentially an
       | encrypted book where you need the force to decrypt it. How does
       | that relate to leader elections? It doesn't, it's just being twee
        
         | crlang44 wrote:
         | I think it's fine, not every name needs to describe some aspect
         | of the underlying project.
        
         | grues-dinner wrote:
         | I was about to disagree, then I remembered how annoying I find
         | switching between DEs and remembering the weird names they give
         | the various utilities, especially when want to know the process
         | name and the about window just says "File Manager".
        
         | jauntywundrkind wrote:
         | Rich Hickey has a section on using good words, on not using
         | nicknames, in his (as ever wonderful) Clojure Conj 2023 talk
         | _Design in Practice,_
         | 
         | https://youtu.be/c5QF2HjHLSE?t=6m20s
        
       | zinclozenge wrote:
       | I love this stuff. Seems like TektiteDB also has an
       | implementation as well https://github.com/spirit-
       | labs/tektite/tree/main/cluster
        
         | pdeva1 wrote:
         | this algorithm is flawed. i created a test which can read
         | failed write
         | https://gist.github.com/pdeva/58854fa644d074cf07aa0ecca9a465...
        
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