An intern built a parking space allocation app

“We'll document it after the quarter.”— Petra, An intern

Reason:

Officially because the ERP is only reachable on the VPN, which drops every 19 minutes. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Petra, a product owner

Build time:

4 hours 37 minutes

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

an SQLite file called backup(1).db

Authentication:

a URL 65 characters long, which counts as security

Deployment:

deployed 17 minutes before the builder went on holiday

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in December

Documentation:

a Slack thread from February

Security situation:

it has an admin panel, unlinked, unprotected

Future disaster:

It will become business critical in 9 months.

Age: 41 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 41 days ago · original builder left 33 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €2.2m per year, 2 departments depend on it, the builder has left.