An intern built a quality deviation tracker

“Git is basically a backup.”— Miriam, An intern

Reason:

Honestly? Because the workaround has been in production for 3 months. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Miriam, a working student

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

Redis, permanently

Database:

a GitHub Gist that became business critical

Authentication:

the guest account can see more than expected

Deployment:

hosted in a cloud region nobody intended to use

Responsible:

a steering committee that has not met in 14 months

Documentation:

a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"

Security situation:

rate limiting consists of hoping nobody notices

Future disaster:

It will acquire a workaround for the workaround.

Age: 1.9 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 263 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €841k per year, 231 users, alive 33x longer than intended.