Six or seven years ago our eldest child, then a preschooler, drew me a picture of the Internet1. I framed it and I keep it on the landing outside my bedroom - y'know, in case I get lost on the Internet and need a map:
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Framed child-drawn picture showing multiple circles, connected by lines, each with a number 0 or 1 in it.
I found myself reminded of this piece of childhood art when she once again helped me with a network map, this weekend.
As I kick off my Automattic sabbatical I'm aiming to spend some of this and next month building a new server architecture for Three Rings. To share my plans, this weekend, I'd been drawing network diagrams showing my fellow volunteers what I was planning to implement. Later, our eldest swooped in and decided to "enhance" the picture with faces and names for each server:
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Network diagram but with entities having faces and named Chungus, Atul, Summer, Gwen, Alice, Astrid, and Demmy.
I noted that she named the read-replica database server Demmy2, after our dog.
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French Bulldog with her tongue sticking out.
It's a cute name for a server, but I don't think I'm going to follow it. The last thing I want is for her to overhear me complaining about some possible future server problem and misinterpret what I'm saying. "Demmy is a bit slow; can you give her a kick," could easily cause distress, not to mention "Demmy's dying; can we spin up a replacement?"
I'll stick to more-conventional server names for this new cluster, I think.
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