The Founder's Office built a contract repository with no search

“It has HTTPS.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Allegedly because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "magic". Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Kevin, a product owner

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Svelte, because apparently this was the moment to experiment

Database:

the legacy system's database through a read-only user with write permissions

Authentication:

the incident response plan is "call personName"

Deployment:

behind a load balancer pointing to exactly one machine

Responsible:

a steering committee that has not met in 13 months

Documentation:

a screenshot of a photographed whiteboard

Security situation:

production secrets are in .env.example

Future disaster:

It will send 152,773 duplicate emails.

Age: 40 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €259k per year, 44% chance of becoming business critical, 1 departments depend on it.