In ten years, none of the original developers of Hotels are with the company. The new generation of engineers is upset both with Hotels’ limitations and the fact that it’s not written in XYZ language which they really want to have on their résumés.
So they embark on a total rewrite of Hotels, and to emphasize the awesomeness, most likely it will be called either Phoenix (because one out of three internal 2.0 rewrite projects is called that) or Venice (because it’s a place that has lots of hotels).
As part of their ambitious rewrite, they also start building a custom message queue in XYZ. It’s called Milan so there’s now a cute city theme. A bunch of other exciting NIH XYZ greenfield projects spring up, all with city code names.
Another ten years go by. A programmer complains to another:
“Where I work is the worst. There’s all these projects written in XYZ which nobody uses any more, and they’re all named after random cities. Why couldn’t they call the hotel booking service something descriptive.”
How about just Hotels 2.X.X.X? Honestly, not much reason it can't be the exact same namespace depending on the language and whether the new and old would be imported by the same project.
In ten years, none of the original developers of Hotels are with the company. The new generation of engineers is upset both with Hotels’ limitations and the fact that it’s not written in XYZ language which they really want to have on their résumés.
So they embark on a total rewrite of Hotels, and to emphasize the awesomeness, most likely it will be called either Phoenix (because one out of three internal 2.0 rewrite projects is called that) or Venice (because it’s a place that has lots of hotels).
As part of their ambitious rewrite, they also start building a custom message queue in XYZ. It’s called Milan so there’s now a cute city theme. A bunch of other exciting NIH XYZ greenfield projects spring up, all with city code names.
Another ten years go by. A programmer complains to another:
“Where I work is the worst. There’s all these projects written in XYZ which nobody uses any more, and they’re all named after random cities. Why couldn’t they call the hotel booking service something descriptive.”