CEO's Daughter built a demo environment that became production

“It's only one database.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Because the licence costs €49 per named user. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Kevin, a recruiter

Build time:

3 evenings

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

Jira custom fields, somehow

Authentication:

the shared account belongs to Olivier, who left 4 months ago

Deployment:

deployed from Marco's laptop

Responsible:

Plant Manager, who calls it "the little tool"

Documentation:

an architecture diagram containing a box labelled "magic happens here"

Security situation:

production secrets are in the frontend bundle

Future disaster:

It will become a works council agenda item.

Age: 215 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, 5 departments depend on it, it is load bearing.