The CEO built a custom survey tool for one annual survey

“There's already a Jira ticket.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Officially because the nightly job requires somebody to click "continue". Already exported 132,143 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Katrin, an intern

Build time:

3 evenings

Built with:

Bootstrap 3 and a dream

Database:

Cosmos DB because somebody had Azure credits

Authentication:

the write-only account can also read

Deployment:

deployed every time Lukas remembers

Responsible:

Jens, because their credit card pays for it

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 34 days ago

Security situation:

the session never expires

Future disaster:

It will fail during the year-end close.

Age: 3.8 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, alive 196x longer than intended, direct production access.