• @[email protected]
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    2011 months ago

    Rolling onto a client that uses “O11y” for observability almost gave me permanent damage.

    • Laurel Raven
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      811 months ago

      This is the first time I’ve ever even heard of these kinds of abbreviations, what the hell even are they?

      • @[email protected]
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        1311 months ago

        They’re shorthand for long words you don’t want to type. You keep the first and last letter and replace the rest of the word with the number of characters you removed.

        Kubernetes ➡️ K8s Observability ➡️ O11y

        🤷🏼‍♂️

        • @[email protected]
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          1311 months ago

          And I thought that “8” had something to do with “netes” because it somewhat resembles the pronunciation 🤦‍♂️

          • @[email protected]
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            911 months ago

            Yeah this is my first time learning this too and k8s is something that comes up almost daily for me.

            I18n is the only one that clues in for me (internationalization).

          • @[email protected]
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            411 months ago

            I thought the same until the barbarians came @me with O11y and one of my coworkers asked where the f they got “oh eleveny” from.

            I just thought 8 = netes.

        • Laurel Raven
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          711 months ago

          I didn’t think I could hate a name shortening system this much but here we are