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[–] cloud_herder@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They’re shorthand for long words you don’t want to type. You keep the first and last letter and replace the rest of the word with the number of characters you removed.

Kubernetes ➡️ K8s Observability ➡️ O11y

🤷🏼‍♂️

[–] Nithanim@programming.dev 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

And I thought that "8" had something to do with "netes" because it somewhat resembles the pronunciation 🤦‍♂️

[–] Ithi@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah this is my first time learning this too and k8s is something that comes up almost daily for me.

I18n is the only one that clues in for me (internationalization).

[–] Nithanim@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

Man, I always found that weird but never looked it up...

[–] cloud_herder@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think I’d still rather type out internationalization even if it doesn’t fit on a slide lol.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

Was it a file system workaround, or character limit in some older programming language?

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

My favorite is k3s. Named so that it is the same as k8s, but smaller.

[–] cloud_herder@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I thought the same until the barbarians came @me with O11y and one of my coworkers asked where the f they got “oh eleveny” from.

I just thought 8 = netes.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago

I didn't think I could hate a name shortening system this much but here we are