• @[email protected]
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    810 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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      1210 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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        1310 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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          910 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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            310 months ago

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

            • @[email protected]
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              110 months ago

              Was it a file system workaround, or character limit in some older programming language?

        • @cloud_herder
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          410 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.

        • @barsquid
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          410 months ago

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