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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by tptacek on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @08:10PM (#39449067)
I could not be more confused. Does EC2 quietly call their hosting machines "droplets"? I knew "droplets" to be a DigitalOcean team, but DigitalOcean doesn't have Nitro cards.
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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by apitman on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @08:33PM (#39449214)
Now I'm wondering if that's where DO got the name in the first place
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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by chatmasta on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @09:50PM (#39449620)
Surely "droplet" is a derivative of "ocean?"
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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by arrakeenrevived on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @10:35PM (#39449858)
Clouds (like, the big fluffy things in the sky) are made up of many droplets of liquid. Using "droplet" to refer to the things that make up cloud computing is a pretty natural nickname for any cloud provider, not just DO. I do imagine that DO uses "droplet" as a public product branding because it works well with their "Ocean" brand, though.

...now I'm actually interested in knowing if "droplet" is derived from "ocean", or if "Digital Ocean" was derived from having many droplets (which was derived from cloud). Maybe neither.

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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by driftnet on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @10:32AM (#39455023)
Clouds are water vapor, not droplets.
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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by abadpoli on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @10:55AM (#39455368)
“Cloud: Visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud

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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by singleshot_ on Monday February 26, 2024 @07:23PM (#39518545)
Clouds are condensed water droplets in the air. The air below the cloud has just about the same amount of water in it, but at the altitude of the bottom of the cloud, the atmosphere is cool enough for that water vapor to condense, forming the cloud.

Search terms include “lapse rate” if you would like to learn more.

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