Engineering built a quote approval app

“The business needed it yesterday.”— Anja, Engineering

Reason:

Mainly because the CEO asked for it in a corridor on a Friday. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Anja, an analyst

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Replit, because deployment looked like one button

Database:

two databases kept "mostly in sync"

Authentication:

the API key has existed since the prototype

Deployment:

running behind nginx config copied from Stack Overflow

Responsible:

Priya, according to Jira

Documentation:

a Confluence page whose screenshots are all out of date

Security situation:

password reset emails contain the old password

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into SAP and then quietly migrated back.

Age: 4.1 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 6 departments depend on it, alive 25x longer than intended, 1 users.