Cluster Bomb

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A dramatic slang term for a change or problem that scatters failures across many parts of a system at once. In ops conversations, it usually implies wide blast radius rather than one clean isolated outage.

    In plain English: A change or failure that causes many problems across a system at once.

    Example: "That shared config push was a cluster bomb because it broke auth, logging, and billing in different ways across every region."

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