The CFO built a customs document tracker

“It only writes when necessary.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the API documentation says "ask Thomas". Forked from a tutorial at 17:49 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Ravi, someone from Procurement

Build time:

5 evenings

Built with:

a browser extension that somehow became business critical

Database:

a private Slack channel called #data-backup

Authentication:

the certificate is self-signed and everybody clicked through

Deployment:

deployed from a Git commit nobody has pushed

Responsible:

Plant Manager, who delegated it to somebody who left

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

the audit log was disabled because the disk filled up

Future disaster:

It will round money differently from Finance.

Age: 192 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 192 days ago · original builder left 165 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, direct production access, the builder has left.