Dog Shelter Team built an incident log nobody logs incidents in

“The data is mostly public anyway.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". Built in 9 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Tobias, a team lead

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

a SharePoint list with 224,887 items

Authentication:

the session cookie expires in 10 years

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word test

Responsible:

Chen, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

the admin account is also the service account

Future disaster:

It will be presented at a conference as a success story.

Age: 1.7 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 178 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 45x longer than intended, the builder has left, 1 departments depend on it.