The Berlin Office built a custom calendar

“AWS probably handles that.”— Nadia, The Berlin Office

Reason:

Mainly because the dashboard disagrees with Finance by €83,000. Forked from a tutorial at 23:50 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Nadia, a field technician

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Replit, because deployment looked like one button

Database:

a REST API backed by another REST API backed by Excel

Authentication:

the session cookie expires in 10 years

Deployment:

running in Docker, but the Dockerfile is missing

Responsible:

a team that has since been reorganised

Documentation:

tribal knowledge, technically

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will get an SLA before it gets a test suite.

Age: 4.7 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 733 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 4 departments depend on it, alive 82x longer than intended, the builder has left.