Engineering built a launch checklist

“The service account needs those permissions.”— Daniel, Engineering

Reason:

Mainly because the project has been 90% finished for 11 months. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Daniel, a field technician

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Make.com being used as infrastructure

Database:

Neo4j because someone drew arrows on a whiteboard

Authentication:

no login. It is on the intranet, so it is fine.

Deployment:

running in a region 7 time zones away from its users

Responsible:

Nadia, who has not touched it in 17 months

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

CSRF protection was temporarily disabled

Future disaster:

It will become part of the company's "digital core" slide deck.

Age: 1.7 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €274k per year, alive 44x longer than intended, 1 departments depend on it.