Procurement built a sales dashboard nobody asked for

“It's technically not production.”— Priya, Procurement

Reason:

Officially because the intranet logs you out after 4 minutes of inactivity. With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Priya, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

4 hours 23 minutes

Built with:

Laravel, maintained by one contractor

Database:

MongoDB where every document has a different schema

Authentication:

IP allow-list containing 0.0.0.0/0

Deployment:

deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Kevin's laptop

Responsible:

IT, according to Finance

Documentation:

an onboarding call everyone is expected to remember

Security situation:

production secrets are in the frontend bundle

Future disaster:

It will stop working after someone renames a column.

Age: 121 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated mythic mostly because: €6.5m per year, 827 users, 1 accidental connections.