diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc index 8ea1d29..c56c2ec 100644 --- a/README.asciidoc +++ b/README.asciidoc @@ -1,13 +1,25 @@ = Greek Names in Software Projects -This is a repo aimed to keep a list of all the different kinds of software projects whose names have a Greek origin. +This is a repo aimed to keep a list of all the different kinds of software projects whose names have a Greek origin. == History -The motivation for this came up from the http://www.jhug.gr/[Greek Java User Group] Slack group, where we've been having fun spotting all these software projects in the wild. At some point, I felt it'd be nice to start keeping track... +The motivation for this came up from the http://www.jhug.gr/[Greek Java User Group] Slack group, where we've been having fun spotting all these software projects in the wild. At some point, I felt it'd be nice to start keeping track... == The List +=== Apollo + +* Site: https://www.apollographql.com +* Description: Apollo is the industry-standard GraphQL implementation, providing the data graph layer that connects modern apps to the cloud. +* What it means: Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. + +=== Android + +* Site: https://www.android.com/ +* Description: Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices +* What it means: Android is coined from the Greek root andr-, "man" (male) and the suffix -oid, "having the form or likeness of". + === Boskos @@ -15,7 +27,11 @@ The motivation for this came up from the http://www.jhug.gr/[Greek Java User Gro * Description: Boskos is a resource manager service, that handles and manages different kind of resources and transition between different states. * What it means: Boskos is a sheperd :sheep: in Greek +=== Cassandra +* Site: https://cassandra.apache.org/ +* Description: Cassandra is a highly scalable and available distributed database. +* What it means: Priestess of Apollo in Greek mythology cursed to utter true prophecies, but never to be believed. === Istio @@ -24,6 +40,13 @@ The motivation for this came up from the http://www.jhug.gr/[Greek Java User Gro * What it means: Istio is the sail of a sailing boat/vessel. +=== Omada + +* Site: https://www.tp-link.com/en/omada-sdn/ +* Description: Omada’s Software Defined Networking (SDN) platform integrates network devices providing 100% centralized cloud management. +* What it means: Greek word for "team". A group of people with the same goal. + + === Kallithea * Site: https://kallithea-scm.org/ @@ -33,39 +56,50 @@ The motivation for this came up from the http://www.jhug.gr/[Greek Java User Gro === Kiali * Site: https://www.kiali.io/ -* Description: Kiali is an observability console for Istio with service mesh configuration capabilities. +* Description: Kiali is an observability console for Istio with service mesh configuration capabilities. * What it means: Imagine you're holding a pair of binoculars and a car horn suddenly goes off behind you. Yes, you've dropped the binoculars. They're broken in half. Each half is a "kiali". Also, a binocular - but who has "a" binocular these days? -=== Kubernetes +=== Kubernetes * Site: https://kubernetes.io/ * Description: Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management * What it means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes[Kubernetes (κυβερνήτης, Greek for "governor", "helmsman" or "captain")] -=== Portieris +=== Paketo + +* Site: https://paketo.io +* Description: Modular Buildpacks, written in Go. Paketo Buildpacks provide language runtime support for applications. They leverage the Cloud Native Buildpacks framework to make image builds easy, performant, and secure. +* What it means: Paketo means "package". + + +=== Portieris * Site: https://github.com/IBM/portieris * Description: A Kubernetes Admission Controller for verifying image trust with Notary. -* What it means: Portieris is the bouncer you'd find in a club. +* What it means: Portieris is the bouncer you'd find in a club. -=== Prometheus +=== Prometheus * Site: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus * Description: The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database. https://prometheus.io/ * What it means: A name from Greek Mythology, of a Titan, who stole the fire from the gods and gave it to humanity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus -=== Synnefo +=== Synnefo * Site: https://www.synnefo.org/ * Description: Synnefo is open source cloud software used to create massively scalable IaaS clouds. * What it means: Synnefo means "cloud". -=== Cassandra +=== Scylla -* Site: https://cassandra.apache.org/ -* Description: Cassandra is a highly scalable and available distributed database. -* What it means: Priestess of Apollo in Greek mythology cursed to utter true prophecies, but never to be believed. +* Site: https://www.scylladb.com/ +* Description: Scylla is a drop-in Apache Cassandra alternative big data database with ultra-low latency and extremely high throughput. +* What it means: Legendary monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart Charybdis. +=== Thanos +* Site: https://thanos.io/ +* Description: Thanos is a set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity, which can be added seamlessly on top of existing Prometheus deployments. +* What it means: Thanos is a Greek masculine given name and surname, a short form of Athanasios meaning 'immortal'.