Enterprise Architecture built a custom file storage system

“We'll document it after the quarter.”— Priya, Enterprise Architecture

Reason:

Officially because the bug is now documented behaviour. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Priya, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

React, Vite and unreasonable confidence

Database:

a production snapshot from February because restore testing felt risky

Authentication:

MFA is optional, so naturally nobody uses it

Deployment:

on a VM created for a workshop in 2023

Responsible:

a consultancy that changed its name twice

Documentation:

two architecture diagrams that disagree

Security situation:

security is handled by being "internal only"

Future disaster:

It will fail five minutes before a board meeting.

Age: 4.9 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 20x longer than intended, 19 users.