Hey Marios, I'm for keeping the word "blob". Every dev already knows what that is -- it's used in databases, git, et cetera.
However, I don't like "container" as much. If I just saw the two words without a context, I would perhaps consider them synonyms (blob == "container for bits"). My suggestion is "collection", if you can afford such a general name. In my mind it's much clearer that blobs form (or belong to) collections rather than containers or buckets. Thomas ----- Original Message ----- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 11:29:59 AM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: 'A Blob by any other name'... Hi, I have so far been using the nouns 'Container' and 'Blob' for the entities in our (developing) cloud storage API. It was always the intention to change these at some point so I thought it would be a good idea to get some input from the wider group. A 'blob' is a uniquely named collection of data, stored as a single entity (in S3/CloudFiles 'Object'). A 'container' is a uniquely named grouping of blobs (in S3 'Bucket' and CloudFiles 'Container'). So, any ideas about what we should be calling these 'things'? Do we need to change the current names at all? marios
