Facility Services built a status page for internal systems

“Nobody outside the team uses it.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because the printer is somehow involved. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Bastian, a working student

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

UUIDs stored as VARCHAR(255), just in case

Authentication:

the password is "Password1!" because it meets the policy

Deployment:

deployed from the main branch because branches were confusing

Responsible:

Elena, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

a Jira ticket with 18 comments

Security situation:

CSRF protection was temporarily disabled

Future disaster:

It will create a GDPR incident somebody describes as "probably minor".

Age: 6.2 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 25x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it, older than the department using it.