The Innovation Team built a coffee machine incident tracker

“We'll add tests later.”— Katrin, The Innovation Team

Reason:

Honestly? Because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "magic". With a logo generated at 16:18.

Built by:

Katrin, a key account manager

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Excel macros, exposed over HTTP

Database:

one table with 112 columns

Authentication:

the logout button refreshes the page

Deployment:

on a VM created for a workshop in 2020

Responsible:

Lukas, because their credit card pays for it

Documentation:

a Word document with tracked changes still enabled

Security situation:

the incident response plan starts with "call Katrin"

Future disaster:

It will be discovered during due diligence.

Age: 173 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 173 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, alive 25x longer than intended, it is load bearing.