When describing the inconsistent, illogical, and sometimes backwards behavior of Microsoft Azure. Typically used when Azure cloud developers have lost all reason and reached the limits of their sanity.
Am I going crazy or is Service Bus acting azurey today?
During a presentation, it is the act of swapping in prepared data to stand in for actual data that would otherwise take time to process, in an effort to present to an audience seamlessly and avoid delays. The origins of "operation turkey swap" come from a television trick performed on cooking shows, where a prepared turkey could be immediately displayed without having to wait for any cooking time.
Without operation turkey swap, Business would've thought our application was slow!