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Already mentioned here before: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066547670477488128

It's like every time anyone writes anything about CockroachDB, the top comment has to be "yeah but the name tho..."

They should change the name! It's a terrible name and it's cost them an inestimable amount of users.

They should change the name to “Clockroach” considering they lose correctness guarantees when the clock drifts beyond a preconfigured uncertainty window.

They who place shallow attributes above merit, deserve neither.

If they gave it a stupid name, why would they be any smarter in the development of the system itself? The name clearly indicates a lack of wisdom.

First impressions matter.

First impressions matter mostly to those who are influenced by them. Many scams have been successful because of exactly that.

A stupid name might do well on search engines for example (as in, those names could be easily searched)

Furthermore I don't really consider the name to be stupid. I don't quite really know of many other ways of succinctly highlighting resilience as a property in a name.

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