Bring Down the House

Definitions

1. A joking phrase for causing a major outage, widespread failure, or dramatic disruption. In ops slang, it usually refers to an action or bug that affects much more of the system than intended.

   In plain English: To cause a major disruption or outage.

   Example: "The migration script was supposed to touch one tenant, but a scoping bug almost brought down the house across the shared cluster."

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