chris-asl / 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

Agones

• Site: https://github.com/googleforgames/agones

• Description: Agones is a library for hosting, running and scaling dedicated game servers on Kubernetes.

• What it means: Agones, is derived from the Greek word agōn which roughly translates to “contest”, “competition at games” and “gathering”.

Android

• Site: https://www.android.com/

• Description: Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices

• What it means: Android is coined from the Greek root andr-, "man" (male) and the suffix -oid, "having the form or likeness of".

Apollo

• Site: https://www.apollographql.com

• Description: Apollo is the industry-standard GraphQL implementation, providing the data graph layer that connects modern apps to the cloud.

• What it means: Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.

Argo

• Site: https://argoproj.github.io/

• Description: An umbrella project comprised of open source tools for Kubernetes to run workflows, manage clusters, and do GitOps right.

• What it means: Argo was a ship built by Argus, one of the Argonauts, and was used to retrieve the Golden Fleece

Athena (Project)

• Site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Athena

• Description: Project Athena was a joint project of MIT, Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM to produce a campus-wide distributed computing environment for educational use. It was launched in 1983, and research and development ran until June 30, 1991. As of 2020, Athena is still in production use at MIT.

• What it means: The name of the ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, handicraft, and warfare. It is also how we Greeks call our capital, even today. "I like Athena" is sure to impress your Greek friends. ;)

Axios

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

• Description: Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

• What it means: Axios means worthy, suitable, deserving.

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

Cassandra

• Site: https://cassandra.apache.org/

• Description: Cassandra is a highly scalable and available distributed database.

• What it means: Priestess of Apollo in Greek mythology cursed to utter true prophecies, but never to be believed.

Exousia

• Site: https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/exousia

• Description: Exousia is a standalone implementation of Jakarta Authorization.

• What it means: authority, power

Fengari

• Site: https://fengari.io/

• Description: Fengari is the Lua VM written in JavaScript. It uses JavaScript’s garbage collector so that interoperability with the DOM is non-leaky.

• What it means: A small rock in space that has served as the inspiration for endless songs, tales, games, poems and epic adventures: the Earth’s moon (Φεγγάρι). From the verb φέγγω ("phéngo"), which means "to shine".

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")

Kerberos

• Site: https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/

• Description: Kerberos is a computer-network authentication protocol that works on the basis of tickets to allow nodes communicating over a non-secure network to prove their identity to one another in a secure manner.

• What it means: In Greek mythology, Cerberus (Greek: Κέρβερος Kérberos), often referred to as the hound of Hades, is a multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving.

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")

Omada

• Site: https://www.tp-link.com/en/omada-sdn/

• Description: Omada’s Software Defined Networking (SDN) platform integrates network devices providing 100% centralized cloud management.

• What it means: Greek word for "team". A group of people with the same goal.

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".

Peergos

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

• Description: A p2p, secure file storage, social network and application protocol.

• What it means: The name Peergos comes from the Greek word Πύργος (Pyrgos), which means stronghold or tower, but phonetically spelt with the nice connection to being peer-to-peer. Pronuniation: peer-goss (as in gossip).

Piraeus

• Site: https://piraeus.io/

• Description: A cloud native datastore for Kubernetes

• What it means: Is a port city in Greece

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.

Thanos

• Site: https://thanos.io/

• Description: Thanos is a set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity, which can be added seamlessly on top of existing Prometheus deployments.

• What it means: Thanos is a Greek masculine given name and surname, a short form of Athanasios meaning 'immortal'.