Disasters Glossary

Browse 2 disasters terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

2 Disasters Terms

Code Wipeout: A severe failure, deletion, or collapse that wipes out a large body of code behavior, progress, or reliability. In engineering slang, code wipeout is not just...
Train Wreck: A situation that is visibly falling apart and hard to stop watching. In engineering slang, a train wreck is the project, meeting, or deploy everyone knows is...