Cofounder of honeycomb.io, coauthor of Database Reliability Engineering. Operations engineer, DBA, systems engineer, SRE, devops, etc. On call since I was 17.
The only good diff is a red diff.
The first name was bloodhound.sh.. we thought a detective dog would be cute, but it sounded vicious. So we shortened it to hound.sh. But then we got a legal challenge from hound-ci. So the four of us (myself, Christine, Ben, and Toshok) sat down with a lot of beers and tossed out all the ideas we could come up with one night.
The next morning we sat down with coffee and sifted through them for possible contenders. One was trufflepig.io, the other was honeycomb.io. But it was owned by Slack... :(
However, our lovely friends at Slack agreed to sell us the domain (and tossed in hny.co) for just the cost of the lawyer's fees! It was amazingly generous of them, and we are incredibly grateful.
I like honeycomb because of the associations with structured data, sweetness, hard work, and oh yes queen bees. <3
Cofounder of honeycomb.io, coauthor of Database Reliability Engineering. Operations engineer, DBA, systems engineer, SRE, devops, etc. On call since I was 17.
The only good diff is a red diff.
The first name was bloodhound.sh.. we thought a detective dog would be cute, but it sounded vicious. So we shortened it to hound.sh. But then we got a legal challenge from hound-ci. So the four of us (myself, Christine, Ben, and Toshok) sat down with a lot of beers and tossed out all the ideas we could come up with one night.
The next morning we sat down with coffee and sifted through them for possible contenders. One was trufflepig.io, the other was honeycomb.io. But it was owned by Slack... :(
However, our lovely friends at Slack agreed to sell us the domain (and tossed in hny.co) for just the cost of the lawyer's fees! It was amazingly generous of them, and we are incredibly grateful.
I like honeycomb because of the associations with structured data, sweetness, hard work, and oh yes queen bees. <3
Yes! All great reasons! That makes a whole lot of sense. That's great that it worked out.
One of the early name ideas for Amazon was relentless.com. Check out what happens when you click that link π
They too found it kind of vicious in the end.
OMG. TIL!