This is a repo aimed to keep a list of all the different kinds of software projects whose names have a Greek origin.
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…
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Description: Apollo is the industry-standard GraphQL implementation, providing the data graph layer that connects modern apps to the cloud.
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What it means: Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.
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Site: https://www.android.com/
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Description: Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices
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What it means: Android is coined from the Greek root andr-, "man" (male) and the suffix -oid, "having the form or likeness of".
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Site: https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/tree/master/boskos
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Description: Boskos is a resource manager service, that handles and manages different kind of resources and transition between different states.
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What it means: Boskos is a sheperd 🐑 in Greek
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Description: Cassandra is a highly scalable and available distributed database.
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What it means: Priestess of Apollo in Greek mythology cursed to utter true prophecies, but never to be believed.
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Description: Connect, secure, control, and observe services. https://istio.io
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What it means: Istio is the sail of a sailing boat/vessel.
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Description: Omada’s Software Defined Networking (SDN) platform integrates network devices providing 100% centralized cloud management.
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What it means: Greek word for "team". A group of people with the same goal.
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Description: Kallithea, a free software source code management system supporting two leading version control systems, Mercurial and Git.
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What it means: Usually a name given to areas with a nice view, as it literally translates to good ("kalli") view ("thea")
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Site: https://www.kiali.io/
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Description: Kiali is an observability console for Istio with service mesh configuration capabilities.
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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?
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Site: https://kubernetes.io/
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Description: Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
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What it means: Kubernetes (κυβερνήτης, Greek for "governor", "helmsman" or "captain")
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Site: https://paketo.io
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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.
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What it means: Paketo means "package".
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Description: A Kubernetes Admission Controller for verifying image trust with Notary.
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What it means: Portieris is the bouncer you’d find in a club.
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Description: The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database. https://prometheus.io/
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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
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Site: https://www.synnefo.org/
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Description: Synnefo is open source cloud software used to create massively scalable IaaS clouds.
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What it means: Synnefo means "cloud".
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Description: Scylla is a drop-in Apache Cassandra alternative big data database with ultra-low latency and extremely high throughput.
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What it means: Legendary monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart Charybdis.
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Site: https://thanos.io/
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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.
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What it means: Thanos is a Greek masculine given name and surname, a short form of Athanasios meaning 'immortal'.