• @cloud_herder
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    204 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      84 months ago

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

      • @cloud_herder
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        124 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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          134 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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            94 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).

            • @cloud_herder
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              34 months ago

              I think I’d still rather type out internationalization even if it doesn’t fit on a slide lol.

          • @barsquid
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            44 months ago

            My favorite is k3s. Named so that it is the same as k8s, but smaller.

          • @cloud_herder
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            44 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.