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isaacremuant 4 days ago

> Jay Kreps chose to name the software after the author Franz Kafka because it is "a system optimized for writing", and he liked Kafka's work.

From Wikipedia.

clippy99 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Kafkaesque to configure and get running for simple tasks.

atombender 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A system optimized for writing could also describe the machine in Kafka's "In the Penal Colony".

physicles 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That’s funny, I assumed it was called Kafka because the act of processing items in a queue over and over could be described as kafkaesque.

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