[lokimedes]

There are so many software libraries named after normal concepts from physics and engineering. While I see it as dreamfull flattery, it is really damned annoying when you travel in all of these worlds, especially here on HN where people post all of it.

(Best Regards, Grumpy software-, (defense-)systems engineer and former particle physicist).

[pdelbarba]

I find this one especially egregious because Jepsen looks a lot like Jeppesen the aerospace products company. They mostly do charts and stuff though so I was pretty confused that they were mentioned alongside the term 'aerospike'

[nemothekid]

IIRC, Jepsen here is named after Carly Rae Jepsen, the pop singer.

[johnymontana]

As in "call me maybe", both a reference to the song lyrics and what might happen in a distributed system when a network partition occurs.

[aphyr]

My understanding is that the folks who are responsible for this name were also former aerospace engineers. Name overloading is always tricky, and I hope you can forgive their choices.

Best regards, another grumpy software & physics person. :)