Field Service built a deployment button

“IT would have taken months.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because the spreadsheet has 63,592 rows and 71 tabs. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Ravi, an intern

Build time:

2 hours 40 minutes

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

a MongoDB with no password on port 27018

Authentication:

Basic Auth over plain HTTP

Deployment:

on the marketing website's server, somehow

Responsible:

Ravi, who left 3 months ago

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

a security review was scheduled for March and quietly cancelled

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2033.

Age: 1.1 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 253 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €130k per year, 3 departments depend on it, the builder has left.