[spookthesunset]

I hate with a passion services that have cute clever names. It makes it impossible guess what they do. It makes it easy to overload the service with things that don’t belong.... if the service was named “OrderService”, if somebody wanted to add a “spell check” endpoint people would start asking questions if that service was the right place. But since the service was named “CaptainCrunch”, who knows if spell check belongs...

Same goes for team names too... clever team names are obfuscation.

[Geminidog]

Agreed, the post you replied to had a sort of different point though. I took two semesters of naming things as part of my PhD in software architecture. Do you know anyone with such a PhD? Do you know of any course in any university that teaches people how to name stuff? Did you need to take such courses to arrive at your philosophy on naming things?