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> Prod isn’t an acronym, it’s an abbreviation of Production.

Tangentially, "Prod" is justified since it's being treated as a proper name, like "Paris", "Roderick", or "Mount Rushmore."

But yes, "PROD" is harder to explain, and I suspect it might be bleed-over from looking at code or config files where it gets capitalized.




Looks like how enums are often formatted. My guess is there was an environment enum with these values someone is referencing




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