Field Service built a status page for internal systems

“The API isn't documented.”— Anja, Field Service

Reason:

Because someone called it "basically just CRUD". With a logo generated at 16:27.

Built by:

Anja, the management assistant

Build time:

5 hours 53 minutes

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a vector database because somebody said RAG

Authentication:

the current password ends in 12

Deployment:

deployed on Thursday immediately before a public holiday

Responsible:

Anja, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

a folder called OLD_DO_NOT_USE containing the current documentation

Security situation:

the admin URL contains the word secret

Future disaster:

It will delete records older than 225 days, including the important ones.

Age: 356 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 87% chance of becoming business critical, alive 25x longer than intended, 10 users.