Project Management Office built a vendor onboarding portal

“There's already a Jira ticket.”— Olivier, Project Management Office

Reason:

Officially because the source of truth depends on which department you ask. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Olivier, a working student

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

a Postgres replica that accidentally became primary

Authentication:

everyone uses the admin account

Deployment:

automatically restarted by a cron job because nobody fixed the memory leak

Responsible:

Chen, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

a Notion page titled "New docs"

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will become part of the company's "digital core" slide deck.

Age: 1.6 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 467 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €165k per year, 66 users, alive 28x longer than intended.