The Training Room built a status page for internal systems

“It's just a cron job.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because someone built a prototype during lunch. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Anja, a product owner

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

a Postgres database called final containing 5 years of production data

Authentication:

rate limiting is "please don't"

Deployment:

restarted manually every Monday

Responsible:

Ravi, until somebody notices

Documentation:

three different architecture diagrams

Security situation:

certificate warnings are considered normal

Future disaster:

It will duplicate every record after a timezone change.

Age: 265 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 91% chance of becoming business critical, €41k per year, 28 users.