The COO built a lead scoring model nobody understands

“The password changes every year.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Mainly because the form contains 64 fields and 7 of them are called "Other". With a logo generated at 11:32.

Built by:

Sarah, a team lead

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Docker Compose on a machine called PROD2

Database:

one table called everything

Authentication:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Deployment:

restarted manually every Friday

Responsible:

Kevin, who has never seen the source code

Documentation:

two architecture diagrams that disagree

Security situation:

rate limiting consists of hoping nobody notices

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Nadia's credit card expires.

Age: 1.6 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 79 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €697k per year, 160 users, alive 42x longer than intended.