Operations built a lunch order aggregator

“It's anonymised-ish.”— Lukas, Operations

Reason:

Officially because the documentation starts with "TODO". Quietly rolled out to two countries.

Built by:

Lukas, an analyst

Build time:

4 hours 14 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

61,714 XML files

Authentication:

the admin route is called /secret

Deployment:

deployed from the main branch because branches were confusing

Responsible:

nobody. It has no owner.

Documentation:

an onboarding call everyone is expected to remember

Security situation:

a security review was scheduled for June and quietly cancelled

Future disaster:

It will become business critical in 10 months.

Age: 8.3 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 207 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 58% chance of becoming business critical, 105 users, 2 accidental connections.