Software is a Sugarmill

About a year ago, Google acquired Revolv, where I led the Cloud team. I coined the code names for several of Revolv's projects, including our primary cloud platform. I named it Sugarmill.

But I never told anyone the reason. It was long-running joke that I wouldn't say why I named it. Frankly, I never wanted to say because the reason was more melancholic than jovial. It was not intended to be full of whimsy, but rather was to serve as a stark reminder of what we, as software developer...