Master Data Management built a swag inventory

“We'll document it after the quarter.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Officially because the spreadsheet has 192,889 rows and 18 tabs. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Bastian, a controller

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

MongoDB, because the schema was 'still evolving'

Database:

the filesystem.

Authentication:

the certificate expired 141 days ago

Deployment:

behind a load balancer pointing to exactly one machine

Responsible:

nobody. It has no owner.

Documentation:

a photographed whiteboard from a workshop

Security situation:

production secrets are in .env.example

Future disaster:

It will get a staging environment after production breaks.

Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 329 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 687 users, €49k per year, nobody owns it.