R&D built a price list with its own opinions

“It's only one database.”— Marco, R&D

Reason:

Officially because the form contains 88 fields and 4 of them are called "Other". Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Marco, a key account manager

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

an FTP server containing folders called NEW, NEW2 and FINAL

Authentication:

the role is stored in localStorage

Deployment:

deployed from a Git commit nobody has pushed

Responsible:

whoever happens to be on call

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

the API key is called PUBLIC_API_KEY

Future disaster:

It will trigger a call from the works council.

Age: 270 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 270 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €469k per year, alive 9x longer than intended, 1 users.