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>>pul+(OP)
Semi related: Are other people also annoyed by how many projects are using names of completely unrelated famous things? I expected to read some wild association between a game and Franz Kafka, but no, it's about a streaming platform which happens to be named "Kafka". This is getting seriously annoying when you google for some, e.g. historical, term and then your search results are littered by some completely unrelated software/IT project which reuses the name for no reason in particular. "Factorio" is actually an example of how to do better: Just make up your own word!

>>cubefo+mW
Even worse, Kafka and Apache Kafka have almost no meaningful connection. According to Wikipedia, the author was reading (Franz) Kafka, who was a writer, and the software system is "optimized for writing". (Franz) Kafka wasn't "optimized" for anything, so this is just whimsical naming. It could just as well have been named Apache Hemingway, or Apache Tolstoy.

Whimsical naming is ok, but can also be confusing and annoying.

>>the_af+AX
Wow, that's so unrelated. I think I'd tacitly assumed that it was named that because adopting an event-driven architecture results in byzantine and overly complicated software, like the bureaucracies in Kafka's novels.

>>titano+h61
I’d be shocked if your explanation wasn’t the real one. “Optimized for writing” sounds like the sort of justification you give when your project with a sarcastic self-deprecating name becomes surprisingly successful.

If they wanted to name it after a fast, efficient famous writer it would be Apache Hemingway.

Kafka died before most of his writing was published and most of it was destroyed, which doesn’t seem like something the software would want to be associated with, right?