>Tangential point... rebrand to BEEFY server

idea for an ad campaign:

"mmm, beefy!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ImwKMRq98&t=21s

i don't know how "worldwide" is the distribution of Chef "Boyardee" canned spaghetti (which today is not too good), but the founder's story is fairly interesting. He was a real Italian immigrant chef named Ettore Boiardi and he gets a lot of credit for originally evangelizing and popularizing "spaghetti" and "spaghetti sauce" in America when most people had never tried it.

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

you know, "spaghetti code..."?

The servers are always beefy and the software is always blazingly fast. Blazingly beefy is my new joke trademark.

Because that is a casual word in the English language to describe an object with substantial power?

If you would suggest a word that would make a better substitute in this case, that could move the conversation forward, and perhaps you could improve the aesthetic quality of posts about leaving the cloud.

Well, I wouldn't say I have a beefy car or a beefy sword: there's some historical bit of linguistic connection that seems to have caused people to describe a server with the adjective "beefy", rather than "powerful", "hefty", "stacked", or... "chonky" ;P. Coming up with some options, I think my favorite might be "cranked"?

The first definition for beefy from Merriam-Webster is: heavily and powerfully built .

As someone who's had to rack some pretty heavy servers with lots of GPUs, CPUs, NVMe drives, and RAM, that turned out to be quite powerful, I'd say "beefy" is accurate.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beefy

Side note edit: hefty and chonky don't tell me much about power. Stacked is usually more about a team or group of things (and for individuals, I'd rather not see it).

I wouldn’t describe a corvette as beefy but I might call its engine beefy and i would definitely call a diesel truck beefy.

I think servers, especially bare metal, are in the category of grunt and raw power. Beefy feels right.

Because the server types you get for the price of a single Heroku dyno are incredibly beefy. And suddenly you need a lot less dynos. Which is quite important if you start managing them yourself.

Noted!