I've been in situation where "ServiceRouter" was also doing feature flagging so when debugging 5-year old impossible to solve issue no one looked at it (because, well, it was ServiceRouter not ServiceRouterAndFeatureFlaggerAppendage, in spirit of the article) - YMMV.
Another fun story I recall happened when server technician had to replace faulty HDD in RAID array. We ensured that the serial numbers were correct in correspondence yet still technician replaced the wrong one. When we complained we got into funny argument that we should use color code to designate HDD. Serial numbers are hard to pass and easy to confuse (especially since they were next to each other). But color coding wasn't provided to us, customers - we couldn't use it even if we wanted to.
Naming is hard but descriptive name doesn't guarantee correctness or helpfulness just as non-descriptive wont ease understanding or improve communication without proper directory or conceptual mapping. Does DatabaseServer-EU-259-aed6f give more information than "dumpstation" in scenario where it relates to single server wordpress blog.
In the end it's still about difficulty of naming, middle ground and consistence. Ubuntu for years used letter coding with animals and it worked. MacOS uses naming scheme for releases even though iOS and iPadOS are numbered only. Some people would be confused that Windows 95 is after Windows 3.11 and before Windows 10 and Windows 11. Not sure if Docker still use cutesy auto generated names for containers but it was fun to use.
Another fun story I recall happened when server technician had to replace faulty HDD in RAID array. We ensured that the serial numbers were correct in correspondence yet still technician replaced the wrong one. When we complained we got into funny argument that we should use color code to designate HDD. Serial numbers are hard to pass and easy to confuse (especially since they were next to each other). But color coding wasn't provided to us, customers - we couldn't use it even if we wanted to.
Naming is hard but descriptive name doesn't guarantee correctness or helpfulness just as non-descriptive wont ease understanding or improve communication without proper directory or conceptual mapping. Does DatabaseServer-EU-259-aed6f give more information than "dumpstation" in scenario where it relates to single server wordpress blog.
In the end it's still about difficulty of naming, middle ground and consistence. Ubuntu for years used letter coding with animals and it worked. MacOS uses naming scheme for releases even though iOS and iPadOS are numbered only. Some people would be confused that Windows 95 is after Windows 3.11 and before Windows 10 and Windows 11. Not sure if Docker still use cutesy auto generated names for containers but it was fun to use.
Naming is hard.