Logistics built an app only Kevin knows exists

“It has a padlock icon.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Allegedly because the audit is in 5 weeks. Quietly rolled out to three countries.

Built by:

Daniel, someone from Procurement

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

a CSV that gets overwritten every Friday

Authentication:

Chen knows the password

Deployment:

running with 95% memory usage and "seems fine"

Responsible:

whoever answers the support email

Documentation:

a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"

Security situation:

the admin page is protected by not linking to it

Future disaster:

It will get monitoring after the first outage.

Age: 24 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 24 days ago · original builder left 60 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 799 users, €362k per year, 3 departments depend on it.