Logistics built a parking space allocator

“It's basically a spreadsheet with buttons.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Officially because someone called it "basically just CRUD". Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Lukas, a team lead

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

Kubernetes, for one container

Database:

a SQLite file inside a Docker volume nobody has backed up

Authentication:

the webhook secret is "secret"

Deployment:

accessible through an IP address because DNS is "later"

Responsible:

Petra, who has not touched it in 7 months

Documentation:

an architecture diagram containing a box labelled "magic happens here"

Security situation:

the API key is called PUBLIC_API_KEY

Future disaster:

It will become a works council agenda item.

Age: 193 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 571 users, 28% chance of becoming business critical, alive 6x longer than intended.