• cloud_herder@lemmy.world
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        6 months 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

        🤷🏼‍♂️

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          6 months ago

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

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            6 months 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).

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              6 months ago

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

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            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.