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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Let’s say you’re a famous chef. On the one hand, you have a cookbook with recipes for your restaurant that you’re willing to sell to customers (ie “production”). These are the recipes that you’ve tried and tested and you’re not doing crazy things like mixing bananas with soy sauce. On the other hand, you have your notebook with new recipes you’re still working on or older recipes you want to improve (ie “development”). Every now and then, you’re happy with something in the notebook, so you publish a new version of the cookbook which adds that recipe to the others.
One day, your idiot sous chef accidentally yeets the production cookbook into the pizza oven. They have now deleted the cookbook, and your kitchen has no idea how to make their food now.
There are a few ways to deal with this. Maybe you have a copy of the cookbook at home (something known as an offsite backup). Maybe you can use an older version of the cookbook – you may lose some recipes, but you at least have most of them. Maybe if you’re really desperate you just grab your development notebook and hope that there’s enough good stuff in there that maybe the customers won’t mind the occasional soy sauce banana.
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