Operations built a deployment button

“It's basically Power Apps.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Chen, a key account manager

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

RabbitMQ with 113 unacknowledged messages

Authentication:

the refresh token never expires, for convenience

Deployment:

deployed from the main branch because branches were confusing

Responsible:

a vendor whose support contract expired 14 months ago

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

the encryption key is in the source code

Future disaster:

It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT must stop.

Age: 8.2 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 100x longer than intended, 2 accidental connections, 20% chance of becoming business critical.