CEO's Daughter built a status page for internal systems

“There's already a Jira ticket.”— Thomas, CEO's Daughter

Reason:

Mainly because the form takes 25 minutes to complete and times out after 13. With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Thomas, a controller

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a JSON file in Git called production-data.json

Authentication:

TLS is optional because it is internal

Deployment:

in a Docker container nobody can rebuild

Responsible:

Daniel, informally

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

MFA was disabled after somebody lost their phone

Future disaster:

It will break the day Thomas changes their password.

Age: 18 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 18 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 25% chance of becoming business critical, €17k per year, 1 users.