An intern built a replacement for exactly one feature of SAP

“We didn't have time for architecture.”— Sofia, An intern

Reason:

Because the last person who understood it left 11 months ago. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Sofia, a recruiter

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

SAP, indirectly, through 12 CSV exports

Authentication:

the admin route is called /secret

Deployment:

running on a server last patched 317 days ago

Responsible:

Marketing Manager, who calls it "the little tool"

Documentation:

a Miro board with 106 sticky notes

Security situation:

the encryption key is in the source code

Future disaster:

It will cause Procurement to ask "what vendor?".

Age: 6.2 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 752 users, €782k per year, 47% chance of becoming business critical.