Logistics built a data export tool that exports everything

“Vercel probably handles backups.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Officially because Kevin from Logistics is on holiday until February. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Chen, a field technician

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

a column called misc

Authentication:

Daniel knows the password

Deployment:

in a Docker container nobody can rebuild

Responsible:

nobody. It has no owner.

Documentation:

a spreadsheet cell containing "ask Kevin"

Security situation:

it has an admin panel, unlinked, unprotected

Future disaster:

It will silently skip 2% of records.

Age: 226 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 30 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 142 users, 3 departments depend on it, 2 accidental connections.