Internal Communications built a profitability calculator

“It's basically Power Apps.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Mainly because the workflow has 77 steps and nobody wants to open it. Forked from a tutorial at 16:29 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Sofia, an intern

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Node.js with 847 packages and one route

Database:

Trello cards with JSON in the descriptions

Authentication:

the app is secure because it has a padlock icon

Deployment:

running in Kubernetes with one pod and no reason

Responsible:

the business

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

CSRF protection was temporarily disabled

Future disaster:

It will fill the disk at 17:44.

Age: 282 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 282 days ago · original builder left 180 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, the builder has left, 21% chance of becoming business critical.