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Noun - a catastrophe of epic proportion; particularly in the deployment or maintenance of IT services or hardware, caused by utter incompetence or a fundamental lack of understanding of the underlying systems.
That crash was an olamity. It could've completely been avoided if he would have had any understanding of package management.
by badsfo March 3, 2011
Get the olamity mug.The foolish act of pushing untested software to production environments in order to "test" its functionality.
Similar to the "fuck it, run it" process in the high performance automotive field.
Similar to the "fuck it, run it" process in the high performance automotive field.
dev: We've got a new, super-awesome version of the gameserver that's going to fix all of our problems.
ops: Ok, let's get that out to QA and test it.
dev: Nah, we're prodtesting this one.
ops: ....
ops: Ok, let's get that out to QA and test it.
dev: Nah, we're prodtesting this one.
ops: ....
by badsfo May 14, 2014
Get the prodtesting mug.Noun - a catastrophe of epic proportion; particularly in the deployment or maintenance of IT services or hardware, caused by utter incompetence or a fundamental lack of understanding of the underlying systems.
That crash was an olamity. It could've completely been avoided if he would have had any understanding of package management.
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