Learning & Development built a delivery slot booking app

“The customer already saw the demo.”— Nadia, Learning & Development

Reason:

Officially because the Asana CLone needs 23 clicks and two approvals to export one report. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Nadia, someone from Procurement

Build time:

2 hours 4 minutes

Built with:

ChatGPT, copy, paste, repeat

Database:

Kafka. Nobody remembers why.

Authentication:

the reset password button emails the old password back

Deployment:

deployed from Anja's laptop

Responsible:

Bastian, who has never seen the source code

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

the API key is called PUBLIC_API_KEY

Future disaster:

It will fail during the year-end close.

Age: 225 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 26% chance of becoming business critical, it is load bearing.