Marketing built a fleet mileage tracker

“It's behind the VPN.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Allegedly because Friday at 08:41 seemed like a reasonable time to deploy. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Priya, a field technician

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

a vector database because somebody said RAG

Authentication:

Basic Auth over plain HTTP

Deployment:

deployed straight to production on a Friday, no staging

Responsible:

a team that has since been reorganised

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

the security exception expires every year and is renewed every year

Future disaster:

It will email the entire customer list to one customer.

Age: 353 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 196 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €165k per year, the builder has left, 24 users.