Marketing built a meme outbid.lol clone

“The API isn't documented.”— Katrin, Marketing

Reason:

Mainly because management has a PowerPoint with a third number. Built in 7 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Katrin, a recruiter

Build time:

19 minutes

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

a column called do_not_use that is required

Authentication:

the security model is "Microsoft probably handles that"

Deployment:

running from an image tagged latest

Responsible:

Katrin, a recruiter. Only Katrin.

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Thomas, who left

Security situation:

CORS is set to * because it fixed the issue

Future disaster:

It will be used for payroll by accident.

Age: 3.0 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 4 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, alive 78x longer than intended, 15% chance of becoming business critical.