Business Development built a customer reference database

“Nobody would want this data.”— Marco, Business Development

Reason:

Because the roadmap says Q3, but nobody wrote down the year. With a logo generated at 16:24.

Built by:

Marco, someone from Procurement

Build time:

5 evenings

Built with:

Excel macros, exposed over HTTP

Database:

a Git repository with one JSON file per customer

Authentication:

the encryption key is in a comment explaining not to share it

Deployment:

deployed from Elena's laptop

Responsible:

"the team", which is Marco

Documentation:

a folder called OLD_DO_NOT_USE containing the current documentation

Security situation:

every error response includes the full stack trace

Future disaster:

It will get an SLA before it gets a test suite.

Age: 71 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 71 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 12 users, €280 per year, 1% chance of becoming business critical.