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pikku means tiny or little in Finnish. Is it where the name came from?


I don't know but my first association was "pico-dokku"


My guess has been they both originate from heroku; docker heroku to dokku, pico heroku to piku


Cute, as in the sibling language, Estonian it means “big” or “tall”





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