Dog Shelter Team built a parking space allocation app

“The business needed it yesterday.”— Sofia, Dog Shelter Team

Reason:

Mainly because the customer asked for one tiny change. With a logo generated at 16:52.

Built by:

Sofia, an intern

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a CSV that gets overwritten every Friday

Authentication:

the temporary firewall rule has existed for 4 months

Deployment:

hosted on the demo environment, permanently

Responsible:

Marco, who has never seen the source code

Documentation:

a Teams recording nobody has permission to open

Security situation:

the refresh token never expires

Future disaster:

It will acquire a workaround for the workaround.

Age: 4.4 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, €391k per year, alive 53x longer than intended.