Manufacturing built a customer reference database

“It's more of a proof of concept.”— Jens, Manufacturing

Reason:

Officially because the workflow has 32 steps and nobody wants to open it. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Jens, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

whatever the AI picked first

Database:

a folder called DO_NOT_DELETE_OLD

Authentication:

the browser says "Not Secure", but only in red

Deployment:

running in a Kubernetes cluster created for a proof of concept

Responsible:

the person sitting closest to the printer

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

rate limiting consists of hoping nobody notices

Future disaster:

It will acquire a workaround for the workaround.

Age: 3.8 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 48% chance of becoming business critical, alive 47x longer than intended, 1 departments depend on it.