IT (yes, really) built a status page for internal systems

“The code is self-documenting.”— Kevin, IT (yes, really)

Reason:

Officially because the temporary solution has survived 7 managers. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Kevin, a working student

Build time:

4 evenings

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

a Postgres database called new-2-really-final containing 6 years of production data

Authentication:

the production token is in someone's shell history

Deployment:

last deployed 34 days ago

Responsible:

Chen, who inherited it from Kevin by accident

Documentation:

a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Jira ticket

Future disaster:

It will be the only application that still works during the migration.

Age: 7.0 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 505 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €103k per year, alive 86x longer than intended, the builder has left.