Finance built a product feedback database

“It's in the backlog.”— Elena, Finance

Reason:

Officially because somebody watched a 25 minute tutorial. With a logo generated at 23:17.

Built by:

Elena, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

the legacy system's database through a read-only user with write permissions

Authentication:

Basic Auth over plain HTTP

Deployment:

deployed by copying files over RDP

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

one README with 3 TODOs

Security situation:

the admin page is protected by not linking to it

Future disaster:

It will get a Jira project before it gets documentation.

Age: 58 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 58 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 172 users, it is load bearing.