Deploy Sweat
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
The physical and emotional stress response people feel during risky deployments. In engineering slang, deploy sweat is a vivid measure of how much trust the team does or does not have in its shipping process.
In plain English: The nervous stress people feel while a risky deployment is happening.
Example: "He still got deploy sweat every time the migration step appeared, even after the team had rehearsed it twice in staging."