maninak / greek-names-in-software

This is a repo aimed to keep a list of all the different kinds of software projects whose names have a Greek origin.

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.

History

The motivation for this came up from the 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

Boskos

• Site: https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/tree/master/boskos

• 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 🐑 in Greek

Istio

• Site: https://github.com/istio/istio

• Description: Connect, secure, control, and observe services. https://istio.io

• What it means: Istio is the sail of a sailing boat/vessel.

Kallithea

• Site: https://kallithea-scm.org/

• Description: Kallithea, a free software source code management system supporting two leading version control systems, Mercurial and Git.

• What it means: Usually a name given to areas with a nice view, as it literally translates to good ("kalli") view ("thea")

Kiali

• Site: https://www.kiali.io/

• 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

• Site: https://kubernetes.io/

• Description: Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

• What it means: Kubernetes (κυβερνήτης, Greek for "governor", "helmsman" or "captain")

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.

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

• 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".

Scylla

• 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.