Procurement built a cheap copy of a SaaS app

“Sales already promised it.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Mainly because the documentation describes a button that no longer exists. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Nadia, a recruiter

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Laravel, maintained by one contractor

Database:

Kafka. Nobody remembers why.

Authentication:

rate limiting is "please don't"

Deployment:

in a Docker container nobody can rebuild

Responsible:

whoever happens to be on call

Documentation:

a Notion page titled "New docs"

Security situation:

the API key is called PUBLIC_API_KEY

Future disaster:

It will be the only application that still works during the migration.

Age: 1.4 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 73x longer than intended, 22 users, 1 departments depend on it.