When I say long name I wasn’t implying meaningless ones.
Sooo, that example wasn’t exactly “contrived” - it’s based on a standard I see where I work.
DB - it's a database!
DW - and a data warehouse at that!
ORCL - It's an Oracle database!
HHI - Application or team using / managing this database
P - Production (T forTest - love the 1char difference between names!)
01 - There may be more than one.
This is more what I’m arguing against - embedding meta-data about the thing into its name. Especially when all of that information is available in AWS metadata.
[Site][service][Rack] makes sense for on-premise stuff - no argument there.
I’m just saying long names dont have to be obtuse or confusing.
Not to butt in into your conversation, just wanted to drop that me and my colleagues use what we call the “clone cars” method to combat our company’s naming scheme
So for example we dubbed CAPROD01 “Cappy”
NASPROD01 became “Nasir”
LTPDEV02 became “Luigi” (because he’s always number 2)
Of course in written communication we use the full name (which is much less of an inconvenience) and we always double check in conversation or spell out full names before doing anything critical
Sooo, that example wasn’t exactly “contrived” - it’s based on a standard I see where I work.
DB - it's a database! DW - and a data warehouse at that! ORCL - It's an Oracle database! HHI - Application or team using / managing this database P - Production (T for Test - love the 1 char difference between names!) 01 - There may be more than one.This is more what I’m arguing against - embedding meta-data about the thing into its name. Especially when all of that information is available in AWS metadata.
[Site][service][Rack]makes sense for on-premise stuff - no argument there.Agree
Not to butt in into your conversation, just wanted to drop that me and my colleagues use what we call the “clone cars” method to combat our company’s naming scheme
So for example we dubbed CAPROD01 “Cappy” NASPROD01 became “Nasir” LTPDEV02 became “Luigi” (because he’s always number 2)
Of course in written communication we use the full name (which is much less of an inconvenience) and we always double check in conversation or spell out full names before doing anything critical
Oh - I like that!