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I strongly agree with this. I’ve worked places that follow both naming styles and I’ve found it’s much easier to get up to speed if the services and repositories have names that don’t overload the language you use to talk about what you’re doing. E.g. if your service that sends out webhooks is called “webhooks”, then newcomers will always be confused about whether you’re talking about the concept or the implementation; if the service is called “voltron”, newcomers might not know what it does initially, but they can discover that pretty quickly.


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