Someone From Accounting built a data export tool that exports everything

“The workshop was tomorrow.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Because the deletion process requires a ticket, a manager and 5 approvals. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Olivier, the management assistant

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

a webhook pointed at someone's ngrok tunnel

Database:

a SQLite file inside a Docker volume nobody has backed up

Authentication:

the audit log records "something changed"

Deployment:

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

Responsible:

a steering committee that has not met in 8 months

Documentation:

a Confluence page copied from another project

Security situation:

the webhook secret is "secret"

Future disaster:

It will cause Security to ask "what application?".

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 12 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €508k per year, 5 departments depend on it, 51% chance of becoming business critical.