R&D built a company car booking system

“Git is basically a backup.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Honestly? Because the form takes 27 minutes to complete and times out after 12. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Priya, an analyst

Build time:

1 hours 15 minutes

Built with:

Kafka, for reasons lost to history

Database:

a JSON file in production

Authentication:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Deployment:

deployed on Thursday immediately before a public holiday

Responsible:

whoever answers the support email

Documentation:

one README with 7 TODOs

Security situation:

it has an admin panel, unlinked, unprotected

Future disaster:

It will get rewritten, producing exactly the same system.

Age: 37 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 1 accidental connections, 5% chance of becoming business critical, alive 2x longer than intended.