Sales built a status page for internal systems

“It's basically a spreadsheet with buttons.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because SAP needs 9 clicks and two approvals to export one report. Forked from a tutorial at 14:37 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Petra, an intern

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

a MySQL database called new-old on a machine under a desk

Authentication:

IP allow-list containing 0.0.0.0/0

Deployment:

hosted on a cloud account costing €66.50/month

Responsible:

"the team", which is Petra

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

it logs full customer records to the console

Future disaster:

It will trigger a call from the works council.

Age: 1.7 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 82% chance of becoming business critical, alive 10x longer than intended, 1 users.