Broke Production

Verb Phrase · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. An informal way of saying someone caused or triggered a production outage, incident, or visible service degradation. In engineering culture the phrase is often used bluntly or jokingly, though healthy teams focus more on systems than blame.

    In plain English: Caused a problem in the live production system.

    Example: "Nobody said she broke production on purpose; the real lesson was that one unchecked config path could take out the whole service."

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