Fleet Management built a temporary migration helper from the previous migration

“The database isn't exposed. I think.”— Tobias, Fleet Management

Reason:

Allegedly because the spreadsheet has 86,593 rows and 12 tabs. With a logo generated at 23:50.

Built by:

Tobias, a product owner

Build time:

2 hours 47 minutes

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

booleans stored as "yes", "no", "Y", "N" and occasionally "maybe"

Authentication:

the role is stored in localStorage

Deployment:

running in Kubernetes with one pod and no reason

Responsible:

Jens, who has not touched it in 3 months

Documentation:

a Notion page titled "New docs"

Security situation:

logout only hides the menu

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct customer addresses.

Age: 1.1 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 4 departments depend on it, alive 59x longer than intended, 4 users.