Production built Excel, but in React

“The code is self-documenting.”— Sofia, Production

Reason:

Allegedly because the shared password was last changed 823 days ago. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Sofia, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Node.js with 847 packages and one route

Database:

an SQLite file called app_final_2.db

Authentication:

production is technically the test environment

Deployment:

hosted on Bastian's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

Marco, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

comments in the code explaining what the code used to do

Security situation:

the firewall rule is 0.0.0.0/0

Future disaster:

It will discover the backup password left with Priya.

Age: 4.2 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 4 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 111x longer than intended, 18% chance of becoming business critical, 1 users.