IT terms that are hard to read at first sight

Hello,
this is Kawa from the Brute Force
System Solutions Department.

In this industry, new technologies and services pop up every day like bamboo shoots (I'm a bamboo shoot lover, but I have no intention of going to war with the mushroom people). Some of them are hard to remember because you don't know how to read them, so ordering a caramel macchiato is no wonder

This time, I'd like to offer a somewhat presumptuous and biased summary of how to pronounce some of those tricky IT terms.
(However, personally, I think it's okay as long as the meaning is conveyed, so I believe it's entirely up to the individual to decide what's correct.)

Terms that are hard to read at first sight

◆ awk (oak)

You're probably familiar with Unix/Linux commands.
You might think they're some kind of English word, but apparently, they're actually named after the first letters of the three authors' names.

Alfred Aho,
Peter Weinberger,
Brian Kernighan
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/mastering-linux-shell/9781788990554/5f871e36-5ac8-4805-b5f5-28ab3f2957f3.xhtml

(I'm curious about Alfred's last name...)

◆ cron (Kron, Kowloon, Clone)
The familiar clock daemon
. Personally, I'd prefer "Kron."
Clone can be interpreted in a different way, and for reasons explained later, Kowloon also feels slightly different (but for some reason, "Kowloon" is the dominant term in Japan).

There are various theories about the origin of the word, but originallyGreek god of timeThere is a theory that it comes from cronous (Greek: Κρόνος Kronos), and since there are traces of this word in Latin and English, this seems the most likely (although the original concept is difficult to understand)
It is often used with time-related words like synchronicity and chronicleChrono Trigger is a masterpiece (I like the robot episode)

null
I almost rotted my brain when I heard that
The French word for "0," "nul," comes from the Latin word "nullus," meaning "nothing" (see reference).
"Nuru" is also understood (I don't know for sure).

◆ There are various types of Lambda
, but the author often uses AWS Lambda or Python Lambda.
The origin of Lambda is the Greek alphabet letter lambda "Λ, λ", and
devised by Alonzo Church in the 1930slambda calculusit seems to be derived from

Kubernetes or K8s (Kubanetis, Kubanetis, Kubanetis, etc.)
No Japanese person knows how to pronounce
The English is apparently coo-ber-net-ees. Choose whichever you like.
K8s has 8 letters between the initial K and the final s. Kind of like a sk8er.
The etymologyin this IDCF article⇩

The name Kubernetes comes from the Greek word κυβερνήτης (kivermitis), which means helmsman or pilot, and the logo is designed to resemble a ship's rudder

◆ varchar (virtual)
A common term in databases. It means "any text will do.
" "var" iable "char" actor

Its usage is different from CHAR, soplease refer to the official documentation.

I might write again if I feel like it

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