Whoever Asked First built a warehouse stock counter

“AWS probably handles that.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the process owner is Tobias, who has never used the travel portal. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Anja, an analyst

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a browser extension that somehow became business critical

Database:

a Postgres database called final

Authentication:

the username and password are printed on the login page

Deployment:

running in Kubernetes with one pod and no reason

Responsible:

Thomas, who has never seen the source code

Documentation:

a Notion page with one sentence and 12 empty headings

Security situation:

debug mode is enabled in production

Future disaster:

It will get backups after the first data loss.

Age: 1.6 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 174 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 822 users, €282k per year, 6 departments depend on it.