Facility Services built a dashboard connected directly to production

“It's just a cron job.”— Jens, Facility Services

Reason:

Officially because the CEO found the one button that does not work. With 82 users and 61 feature requests.

Built by:

Jens, the management assistant

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

Elasticsearch, now also storing the invoices

Authentication:

IP allow-list containing 0.0.0.0/0

Deployment:

deployed from a branch called demo

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

a Miro board that takes 8 minutes to load

Security situation:

security is handled by the fact nobody knows it exists

Future disaster:

It will get an SLA before it gets a test suite.

Age: 4.7 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 1691 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 51% chance of becoming business critical, alive 246x longer than intended, 3 departments depend on it.