Facility Services built a quote builder with a discount field and no limit

“We'll tell IT once it works.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Because two teams disagreed about a column name for 5 weeks. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Bastian, a team lead

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a Postgres replica that accidentally became primary

Authentication:

the audit log is a text file called audit-final.txt

Deployment:

running in Kubernetes with one pod and no reason

Responsible:

Tobias, because everyone else refused

Documentation:

an email chain containing the phrase "see below" 5 times

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2032.

Age: 45 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 3x longer than intended, 7% chance of becoming business critical, 1 users.