[jsmthrowaway]

Why did people start doing that? I noticed all the Cassandra people at work started using C* at pretty much the same time, too, including signatures in e-mail. Was there a global "there's too many letters in Cassandra and C7a looks weird" memo to the entire Cassandra community? Drives me nuts for absolutely no reason I can think of.

[AsyncAwait]

Probably a few high profile devs started using it and the community started to emulate.

[tracker1]

I'm honestly not sure, I thought it was a canonical abbreviation as a lot of the training docs I've seen use it.