A Working Group built a system whose only feature is generating a PDF

“It's only one database.”— Miriam, A Working Group

Reason:

Because the CEO tested it on an iPad. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Miriam, a recruiter

Build time:

9 evenings

Built with:

Excel macros with network access

Database:

Firebase with the admin SDK key committed to Git

Authentication:

SSO, but only for Miriam

Deployment:

running from an image tagged final-final

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

Olivier's memory

Security situation:

the certificate expired 34 days ago

Future disaster:

It will trigger a call from the works council.

Age: 19 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 120 users, €96k per year, 2 departments depend on it.