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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
"Kafkaesque" suggests people standing in very long queues. It doesn't seem unreasonable as a name for very long queue software.