[gct]

I can't get over how bad a name etcd is. Everytime I see it I think it's some sort of daemon for /etc files.

[phildougherty]

I think what they were going for was:

/etc is where your config files go on your server etcd is where your config goes for the distributed system

[MikeTLive]

etcd IS a mashup of /etc (configuration files) and distributed. https://youtu.be/z6tjawXZ71E?t=30s