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ashayh on Jan 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Doozer: How Heroku Handles Distributed Failures

Yes, the name comes from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraggle_Rock#Doozers

chancho on Jan 2, 2012 [–]

What a treasure trove of open source project / startup names. Gobo, Boober, Mokey, Doozer, Gorg. One of them already ends in ly, Wembly.

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