Field Service built a customer portal

“We didn't have time to wait for IT.”— Tobias, Field Service

Reason:

Officially because the vendor quoted 8 months and two workshops. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Tobias, a team lead

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

DynamoDB with one item containing everything

Authentication:

the second factor is knowing which door the server room is behind

Deployment:

running on port 5000 in production

Responsible:

Priya, according to Jira

Documentation:

a Word document called Leads_use-this-one.xlsx

Security situation:

security is handled by a checkbox called admin

Future disaster:

It will import production data into the test environment.

Age: 247 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, alive 18x longer than intended, it is load bearing.