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hah... we just try to name it after a bird.

"Woodpecker" is a good metaphorical name for a Write-Ahead Log (WAL) service for several reasons of Persistent and Reliable. Woodpeckers repeatedly and persistently peck trees, symbolizing the reliability and consistent logging of events or data.



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