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Names are super hard to change. They end up everywhere, service directories, URLS, DNS, infrastructure, package names…

It might take a months of work to change a name, just to fix the name of a service which is no longer accurate.

Instead most companies will say something like “that is the translation-service, it is 10 years old. It doesn’t translate anything anymore, but provides load balancing and Auth”



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