Maintenance built a customs document tracker

“We'll add authentication later.”— Daniel, Maintenance

Reason:

Officially because the approval requires 8 people for a €8,600 purchase. With 500 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Daniel, the management assistant

Build time:

2 hours 7 minutes

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

Cosmos DB because somebody had Azure credits

Authentication:

the intern has production access

Deployment:

accessible through an IP address because DNS is "later"

Responsible:

a project group that technically no longer exists

Documentation:

three different architecture diagrams

Security situation:

the audit log was disabled because the disk filled up

Future disaster:

It will be reported to the data protection officer by a customer.

Age: 1.5 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 533 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 1 accidental connections, alive 6x longer than intended, 13% chance of becoming business critical.