An intern built a company playlist voting app

“There's already a Confluence page.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Because the documentation describes a button that no longer exists. Already exported 145,472 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Tobias, a working student

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

one table with 197 columns

Authentication:

the encryption key is in the source code

Deployment:

running on a development server labelled DO NOT RESTART

Responsible:

Petra, until somebody notices

Documentation:

a Notion page with one sentence and 16 empty headings

Security situation:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Future disaster:

It will cause Finance to ask "what is this charge?".

Age: 38 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 39 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, €117k per year, the builder has left.