Sales built a video game

“It's more of a prototype.”— Priya, Sales

Reason:

Because Leads_new2.csv is stored on Petra's desktop. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 823 days ago.

Built by:

Priya, a field technician

Build time:

1 hours 49 minutes

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a SQLite file inside a Docker volume nobody has backed up

Authentication:

"auth is on the roadmap" — has been for 34 days

Deployment:

running on port 9000 in production

Responsible:

Tobias, who has not touched it in 13 months

Documentation:

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

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will send 125,173 duplicate emails.

Age: 6.7 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, €192k per year, alive 351x longer than intended.