An intern built a CSV-to-CSV conversion service

“It's basically an internal tool.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Allegedly because the integration works unless it is Sunday. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Ravi, an intern

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

MongoDB where every document has a different schema

Authentication:

"auth is on the roadmap" — has been for 209 days

Deployment:

automatically restarted by a cron job because nobody fixed the memory leak

Responsible:

whoever answers the support email

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 823 days ago

Security situation:

the data protection officer does not know it exists

Future disaster:

It will import production data into the test environment.

Age: 1.0 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 129 users, €29k per year, alive 13x longer than intended.