Sales built a warehouse label printer web app

“The quarter ends Friday.”— Ravi, Sales

Reason:

Officially because the existing report is a PDF of a screenshot of Customers_final_FINAL.xlsx. Already exported 224,638 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Ravi, a key account manager

Build time:

19 minutes

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

Neo4j because someone drew arrows on a whiteboard

Authentication:

Lukas knows the password

Deployment:

running on a development server labelled DO NOT RESTART

Responsible:

nobody. It has no owner.

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 3 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

security is handled by keeping the URL secret

Future disaster:

It will export test data into production.

Age: 2.0 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 133 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 65 users, alive 51x longer than intended, nobody owns it.