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		obilgic on June 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zipkin - distributed tracing by Twitter (aka Googl... I guess. just checked the commit history, no one is turkish there. Possibly git history might have been cleared before making it public.

skr on June 7, 2012 [–]

We came up with the name by putting all kinds of words into Google translate and making sure they weren't trademarked. Zipkin seemed short and sweet and wasn't widely used before.

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