The Person Who Knows SQL built a candidate referral portal

“We didn't have time for architecture.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Mainly because the form contains 77 fields and 5 of them are called "Other". With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Daniel, someone from Procurement

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

a serverless architecture with one very stateful function

Database:

one table called everything

Authentication:

the admin page is hidden by removing the link

Deployment:

deployed to staging, which customers are now using

Responsible:

a Teams channel with 2 active members

Documentation:

a README last updated 623 days ago

Security situation:

the penetration test account had global admin

Future disaster:

It will get a support rota before it gets an owner.

Age: 105 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 63% chance of becoming business critical, €79k per year, alive 15x longer than intended.