• @laurelraven
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      81 month ago

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

      • @cloud_herder@lemmy.world
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        131 month ago

        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
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          121 month ago

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

          • @Ithi@lemmy.ca
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            91 month ago

            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).

          • @cloud_herder@lemmy.world
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            41 month 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
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          81 month ago

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