eli5: what does it mean to “delete the production database”?

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i have absolutely no experience or knowledge in IT/computer science whatsoever. i saw a post about someone who messed up at work by ‘deleting prod’, and apparently that’s a super big deal. google isn’t helping bc i don’t understand any of these CS terms.

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Imagine you’ve finished writing a really long and hard essay for school and when you go to delete all the “essay-early-draft”, “essay-early-draft-new”, “essay-early-draft-new-new”, and “essay-early-draft-new-new-newest” files you’ve somehow managed to end up with, you accidentally delete “essay-final” instead.

Kind of like that.

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