Yeah it comes from the author. There is no direct connection--i.e. Franz Kafka did not write about unifying all your data in a high-throughput distributed log thing as far as I know. :-)
We had previous gone with a Harry Potter theme at LinkedIn, but after a half dozen projects had kind of exhausted the good Harry Potter related names. "Kafka" sounds cool and kind of kept the literary theme. -Jay On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:13 AM, David Arthur <mum...@gmail.com> wrote: > Somewhat tangential, but where did the name Kafka come from? Is it a > reference to Franz Kafka and The Metamorphosis (or other work)? I ask, > because knowing how the name "Kafka" relates to a distribute pub/sub system > might help inspire ideas for a logo. > > -David > > > On 12/19/12 1:03 PM, Jay Kreps wrote: > >> A few people have asked about getting a logo for Kafka. I think this would >> be a great idea! >> >> Oliver has kindly offered to have a someone at Datadog take a shot at it. >> If that doesn't pan out I am happy to do a 99designs contest to get us >> more >> options. >> >> It would be good for people to use this thread to give ideas or thoughts >> on >> what might be good. I will follow up with mine. I will give this a day or >> so and then try to summarize the suggestions/guidance so that any >> potential >> designer isn't overwhelmed by contradictory suggestions. >> >> -Jay >> >> >
