Marketing built an on-call rota in a shared doc with a UI

“It's only one container.”— Petra, Marketing

Reason:

Allegedly because the mandatory field is documented as optional. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Petra, an analyst

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

a nightly CSV export emailed to Anja

Authentication:

the production token is in someone's shell history

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

the person sitting closest to the printer

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2033.

Age: 6.4 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, €63k per year, alive 26x longer than intended.