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by arrakeenrevived 846 days ago
Clouds (like, the big fluffy things in the sky) are made up of many droplets of liquid. Using "droplet" to refer to the things that make up cloud computing is a pretty natural nickname for any cloud provider, not just DO. I do imagine that DO uses "droplet" as a public product branding because it works well with their "Ocean" brand, though.

...now I'm actually interested in knowing if "droplet" is derived from "ocean", or if "Digital Ocean" was derived from having many droplets (which was derived from cloud). Maybe neither.
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driftnet 846 days ago
Clouds are water vapor, not droplets.
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singleshot_ 840 days ago
Clouds are condensed water droplets in the air. The air below the cloud has just about the same amount of water in it, but at the altitude of the bottom of the cloud, the atmosphere is cool enough for that water vapor to condense, forming the cloud.

Search terms include “lapse rate” if you would like to learn more.

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abadpoli 846 days ago
“Cloud: Visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud

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