http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ exists and calls itself S4. It's a decent gag and the immediately came to mind when I heard S2 vs S3.

(Founder) I have definitely received that advice before :) - to not seem like a regression from S3. But as an abbreviation for Stream Store, it made sense.

Why not just use SS? There can’t possibly be any negative connotations there.

You could even make the s look kind of like a lightning bolt to emphasize how fast it is

Quite dangerous. Will look almost like the Schutzstaffel runic insignia. I'd better avoid this resemblance.

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SS .. as in nazi?

Reserved by GM for the Super Sport

So that's why GM has been asking itself "Are we the baddies?" lately.

S3++?

How do you store a stream? Don’t they just spray around the internet here and there, and if you don’t catch them in the moment, they’re just gone?

(Founder) I thought you were joking but coming back it could well be serious :)

When we say stream, we really mean The Log that Jay Kreps has a famous blog about https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...

We say stream because we would rather not be confused with "logs" as in application logs, but rather associate with the world of streaming data where this primitive is very relevant. We don't mean stream as in a TCP stream or live stream.

You can, however stream Star Wars on S2 ;-) https://s2.dev/docs/quickstart#get-started-with-the-cli

Surely S3++? /s

Disagree. You have a marketing opportunity for a hipster character named "Stu" to be the spokesman.

Disco Stu don't advertise