Marketing built a desk plant watering rota

“It's only for a few people.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Mainly because the source of truth depends on which department you ask. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Marco, a field technician

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

Elasticsearch, now also storing the invoices

Authentication:

MFA is optional, so naturally nobody uses it

Deployment:

on a Raspberry Pi in the server room

Responsible:

a former employee still helping occasionally

Documentation:

three different architecture diagrams

Security situation:

the API key is called PUBLIC_API_KEY

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2029.

Age: 30 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 30 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €137k per year, 2 accidental connections, 33 users.