Quality Assurance built a deployment button

“It's only one container.”— Priya, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Because the integration works unless it is Friday. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Priya, a controller

Build time:

43 minutes

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

237,232 XML files generated by SAP

Authentication:

everyone uses the admin account

Deployment:

on the marketing website's server, somehow

Responsible:

Priya, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 11 days ago

Security situation:

the webhook secret is "secret"

Future disaster:

It will silently stop syncing and nobody will notice for 5 months.

Age: 1.0 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 381 days ago · original builder left 260 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €243k per year, 44 users, alive 18x longer than intended.