the.com/prod
The production environment: where 'it works on my machine' goes to die.
means The live environment where real users hit real data, as opposed to the safe sandbox of development or testing.
from Simply short for 'production' — from Latin producere, 'to bring forth.' In tech slang it got clipped to one punchy syllable, the way engineers abbreviate everything; 'prod' carries the same dread in four letters that 'production' carries in ten.
- origin
- short for production, the real live system
- rule
- never test anything directly in it
- irony
- everyone tests in it anyway, quietly
- friday deploys
- universally feared, frequently done anyway