Operations built an internal job board with two jobs

“The customer already saw the demo.”— Anja, Operations

Reason:

Allegedly because the integration has been "temporarily disabled" for 3 months. Already exported 223,607 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Anja, a team lead

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

a Git repository with one JSON file per customer

Authentication:

the user ID is a query parameter

Deployment:

deployed with a shell script called deploy-final.sh

Responsible:

Finance, according to IT

Documentation:

one README with 12 TODOs

Security situation:

all users technically have admin permissions

Future disaster:

It will duplicate every record after a timezone change.

Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €179k per year, alive 5x longer than intended, 4 users.