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It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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[-] holgersson@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Fair enough. Im in devops and the first thing I thought about was Jenkins, where "server" and "agent" fit quite well.

I dont think master/slave is that good of a naming scheme for fault tolerance either, since the "slave" doesnt do work so that the master doesnt have to, but it's rather an active/reserve kind of thing.

But I also admit that using different terms that fit best for every usecase would only cause more confusion than good.

[-] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

I agree that active/reserve is a better way of saying it, and that's the way I've always said it when working with these systems. Honestly I may have never heard master slave in actual use in 15 years of regularly describing such systems.

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