Procurement built a customer health dashboard where everyone is green

“The office Wi-Fi is secure.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Mainly because Chen has the only working copy of Headcount_v2_backup.xlsx. With 205 users and 20 feature requests.

Built by:

Marco, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a serverless architecture with one very stateful function

Database:

a database running in a container called final-final-db

Authentication:

Nadia knows the password

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word test

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

the last security review happened before the application existed

Future disaster:

It will get monitoring after the first outage.

Age: 5.4 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €601k per year, alive 281x longer than intended, 2 accidental connections.