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Production

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/prəˈdʌkʃən/nounCore term

In software engineering, production means: The live environment where real users use the software, as opposed to development or test environments.

In Turkish: canlı ortam, üretim ortamı, canlı sistem

How it is used

Usually shortened to 'prod'. People say 'in production', 'deploy to production', 'a production issue' and 'production data'. A problem 'in prod' is always taken seriously.

Example sentences

  1. The bug only happens in production, not on my local machine.

  2. Please don't run that migration on production until we have a backup.

Common collocations

  • in production
  • deploy to production
  • production issue
  • production environment
  • go to production
  • deployTo put a new version of software onto servers or devices so that it starts running there, for example in a test environment or for real users.
  • stagingAn environment set up to be as close as possible to production, where a team checks a release one last time before real users get it.
  • releaseA version of a product that is made available to users, or the act of making it available. Also a verb: to release a new version.
  • hotfixAn urgent fix for a serious problem in production, released quickly outside the normal release schedule.
  • roll backTo return a system to an earlier working version after a release or change causes problems.

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