ESG built a custom calendar

“It's not really an application.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Because someone called it "basically just CRUD". Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Thomas, an analyst

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Supabase, with the service role key somewhere unfortunate

Database:

a table called temp that has existed for 6 years

Authentication:

Basic Auth over plain HTTP

Deployment:

behind a load balancer pointing to exactly one machine

Responsible:

a steering committee that has not met in 4 months

Documentation:

a Confluence page linking to another Confluence page

Security situation:

the audit log was disabled because the disk filled up

Future disaster:

It will export test data into production.

Age: 41 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 41 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €122k per year, 67 users, 1 departments depend on it.