Dog Shelter Team built a data export tool that exports everything

“It's basically done.”— Tobias, Dog Shelter Team

Reason:

Allegedly because it was faster to build it than to explain it to Group Controller. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Tobias, a controller

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

a backup called backup-final-June.zip

Authentication:

permissions are checked by asking "should this person be here?"

Deployment:

running from an image tagged final-final

Responsible:

Miriam, because their email address is in the config

Documentation:

a spreadsheet cell containing "ask Olivier"

Security situation:

CSRF protection was temporarily disabled

Future disaster:

It will cause Plant Manager to request an immediate status meeting.

Age: 6.3 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 39x longer than intended, €50k per year, older than the department using it.