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by ok_dad 1657 days ago
At my current job, we have services like "watcher" which watches some data and alerts someone about issues. Should we have called it "alerter"? Who knows, but if I worked at a bird related startup it might have been called Canary, which also makes sense to me. Who cares what we name things, just have good documentation so it's readily discoverable.

I still don't understand what some of our stuff does and it has common names that are descriptive, because documentation sucks. They could be called Widget and Whoozit for all I care, as long as there is documentation!