Whoever Was In The Meeting built an exchange rate calculator with rates updated manually

“We didn't have time for a ticket.”— Sofia, Whoever Was In The Meeting

Reason:

Officially because it was faster to build it than to explain it to IT Service Desk. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Sofia, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

a database running in a container called final-final-db

Authentication:

the security model is "Microsoft probably handles that"

Deployment:

running in Kubernetes with one pod and no reason

Responsible:

nobody officially, Sarah emotionally

Documentation:

a 77 minute screen recording

Security situation:

it logs full customer records to the console

Future disaster:

It will send 18,801 duplicate emails.

Age: 2.5 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 681 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 130x longer than intended, 2 accidental connections, nobody owns it.