CEO's Daughter built a demo environment that became production

“It's just a form.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Because the approval chain includes 4 people and one shared mailbox. Forked from a tutorial at 17:51 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Daniel, a team lead

Build time:

2 hours 10 minutes

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

a Raspberry Pi with 4 years of production data

Authentication:

the secret is in the screenshot in the README

Deployment:

behind a CDN for an app only used inside one building

Responsible:

Lukas, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

a Confluence page copied from another project

Security situation:

the encryption key is in the source code

Future disaster:

It will get an SLA before it gets a test suite.

Age: 89 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 34 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 accidental connections, 24% chance of becoming business critical, the builder has left.