On Redis master-slave terminology

Re:On Redis master-slave terminology by yread on Thursday September 06, 2018 @06:43PM (#17930270)

Perhaps this analogy shows better why master-slave could be offensive to some people:

We could mark deleted rows with a "david star" tag and then run the "holocaust" process on the tables to remove them from storage.

or what about saying "castration" instead of "sandboxing".

Surely, people would agree some words are emotionally loaded and using them is unnecessary

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Re:On Redis master-slave terminology by dragonwriter on Thursday September 06, 2018 @06:48PM (#17930301)

> We could mark deleted rows with a "david star" tag and then run the "holocaust" process on the tables to remove them from storage.

That's not really analogous.

Master-slave refers to a power relationship. “David star” (even more clearly your pre-edit “Jew") is a clear reference directly to a specific people, and “holocaust” to specific historical events.

> or what about saying "castration" instead of "sandboxing".

Aside from being a horrible metaphor compared to sandboxing...what about it?

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Re:On Redis master-slave terminology by function_seven on Thursday September 06, 2018 @06:58PM (#17930356)

I've seen the term "neutered" used to describe this. Like, "The test environment is a neutered version of production. It won't make POST or PUT calls to our partner databases"

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