Re:Kafka’s Last Trial
by BenoitP on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @08:06AM
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Kafka's writings do have some very peculiar themes, though.
I don't know about other countries, but in France calling a process or an organization "Kafkaïan" is a big pejorative. It evokes incapacitating, mind-numbing complexity that you are thrust into.
I thought the name came from LinkedIn's woes of being unable to dispatch data efficiently between the several services and databases. That it was sort of a Kafkaïan mess; and that Kafka -the write-optmized log service- helped decouple this mess; with n writers and m readers you went from m*n to m+n dependencies. Kafka, the tool you need for Kafkaïan problems?
If Kreps named it because of the write optimized facet, other authors could be more suited. Like Asimov, Dumas or Voltaire [1]?
In the end if that's all good though. Franz Kafka is a great author. That's a good name.
I don't know about other countries, but in France calling a process or an organization "Kafkaïan" is a big pejorative. It evokes incapacitating, mind-numbing complexity that you are thrust into.
I thought the name came from LinkedIn's woes of being unable to dispatch data efficiently between the several services and databases. That it was sort of a Kafkaïan mess; and that Kafka -the write-optmized log service- helped decouple this mess; with n writers and m readers you went from m*n to m+n dependencies. Kafka, the tool you need for Kafkaïan problems?
If Kreps named it because of the write optimized facet, other authors could be more suited. Like Asimov, Dumas or Voltaire [1]?
In the end if that's all good though. Franz Kafka is a great author. That's a good name.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prolific_writers