Logistics built a shift planner that emails PDFs

“We have a backup somewhere.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Officially because the tiny change needs approval from 7 people. Built in an afternoon, mostly and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Chen, an intern

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

a table called temp that has existed for 1 years

Authentication:

the secret is in README.md

Deployment:

deployed from the main branch because branches were confusing

Responsible:

Anja, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

rate limiting consists of hoping nobody notices

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Marco's credit card expires.

Age: 1.7 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 532 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €1.4m per year, 296 users, alive 89x longer than intended.