The Factory Floor built a product feedback database

“It's faster this way.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because the project has been 90% finished for 11 months. Built in 2 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Marco, a team lead

Build time:

3 hours 56 minutes

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

a Docker volume called temp and a prayer

Authentication:

the secret is in Git history, so deleting it felt pointless

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

Chen, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

a Jira ticket with 69 comments

Security situation:

a security review was scheduled for August and quietly cancelled

Future disaster:

It will discover the backups have never been restored.

Age: 13 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 13 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 650 users, €545k per year, 2 departments depend on it.