Making It Rain

Verb Phrase · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A joking phrase for generating a lot of output, load, requests, or money very quickly. In engineering slang, it often carries a hint that abundance may not be entirely controlled.

    In plain English: Producing a lot of something quickly and forcefully.

    Example: "The backfill script was making it rain writes on the primary database, which is why the ops team intervened before latency climbed further."

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