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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ELI5 answer:
“Production” means that paying customers are using it. Normally, software companies develop their software and make changes to it in a “development” environment. This means no customers are affected by it. Only developers can log in. Once it has been tested, it can be “moved to production” meaning that customers will get the new version.
If you delete the production database, you are deleting all of the data that customers use. For example, their accounts will be deleted preventing them from logging in. If they had any settings or configuration, those will be deleted too. The customers will not be happy about this!
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