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by OskarS 3477 days ago
This is off-topic, but I can't help myself:

Slack, Hive, Presto, Spark, Sqooper, Kafka, Secor, Thrift, Parquet.

I sometimes can't tell the difference between real Silicon Valley product names and parodies. I'm starting to miss the days when it was all just letters and numbers.

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There's a game "Pokemon or Big Data?"

https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/

This is AMAZING. Thank you.
Yeah can't we go back to naming companies with a color and an animal like we did in the glory days?
I give up. Which one's the real one?
All of them! And they're all mentioned in this post! I was considering adding a fake one to the list (I was thinking "Paprika"), but I felt that would dilute the point.
Busily registers paprika.newfangledtld....