Quality Assurance built a video game

“It's just an Excel replacement.”— Anja, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Allegedly because it was faster to build it than to explain it to Marketing Manager. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Anja, a field technician

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

135,507 XML files

Authentication:

the audit log is a text file called audit-final.txt

Deployment:

running from an image tagged latest

Responsible:

whoever happens to be on call

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 5 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

production secrets are in the README

Future disaster:

It will process the same invoice 4 times.

Age: 152 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, alive 22x longer than intended, it is load bearing.