Facilities built a monitor allocation database

“We have a backup somewhere.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because the CEO asked for it in a corridor on a Monday. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Olivier, a working student

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Docker Compose on a machine called PROD2

Database:

Neo4j because someone drew arrows on a whiteboard

Authentication:

the password is stored in a Teams channel called "Passwords"

Deployment:

deployed from a Git commit nobody has pushed

Responsible:

Miriam, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

a PDF exported from PowerPoint

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will get a support rota before it gets an owner.

Age: 15 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €2k per year, 1 users.