I’m at a mid size company that is currently moving away from cute names onto meaningful names.

I’m glad we’re going in this direction as the onboarding process was painful, trying to piece together so many arbitrary facts, and I’m reminded of this pain every time someone joins and I have to talk them through architecture diagrams.

Using meaningful names will force us to maintain microservices that honour the single responsibility principle.

Scope creep is a form of tech debt, which must be repaid as opposed to being tacitly endorsed by naming services with mutability in mind.