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20 points

Rolling onto a client that uses “O11y” for observability almost gave me permanent damage.

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8 points

This is the first time I’ve ever even heard of these kinds of abbreviations, what the hell even are they?

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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

🤷🏼‍♂️

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13 points

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

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

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