• cloud_herder@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      They’re shorthand for long words you don’t want to type. You keep the first and last letter and replace the rest of the word with the number of characters you removed.

      Kubernetes ➡️ K8s Observability ➡️ O11y

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        6 months ago

        And I thought that “8” had something to do with “netes” because it somewhat resembles the pronunciation 🤦‍♂️