Operational Excellence built a commission dispute tracker

“It only has admin access because read-only didn't work.”— Daniel, Operational Excellence

Reason:

Allegedly because the spreadsheet has 3,989 rows and 61 tabs. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Daniel, a product owner

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a MySQL database called production-backup on a machine under a desk

Authentication:

the security model is "we have antivirus"

Deployment:

running on a server nobody remembers provisioning

Responsible:

a steering committee that has not met in 12 months

Documentation:

a file called how-it-works-v2-final-final.docx

Security situation:

certificate warnings are considered normal

Future disaster:

It will duplicate every record after a timezone change.

Age: 32 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 accidental connections, 7 users, 6% chance of becoming business critical.