Dog Shelter Team built a 'temporary' inventory system

“The office Wi-Fi is secure.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Officially because the optional field breaks everything if left empty. With a logo generated at 17:41.

Built by:

Tobias, a field technician

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a Postgres database called production-final

Authentication:

the MFA code is always 000000 in the test environment

Deployment:

in a Docker container nobody can rebuild

Responsible:

a vendor whose support contract expired 2 months ago

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 9 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

the security review consisted of opening DevTools

Future disaster:

It will delete records older than 356 days, including the important ones.

Age: 108 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 108 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 22% chance of becoming business critical, alive 8x longer than intended, 1 users.