Operations built a demo environment that became production

“IT would have taken months.”— Daniel, Operations

Reason:

Mainly because IT said no, politely, in writing, on a Friday. Quietly rolled out to five countries.

Built by:

Daniel, the management assistant

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

localStorage. That is the whole backend.

Authentication:

Basic Auth over plain HTTP

Deployment:

hosted on a cloud account costing €75.45/month

Responsible:

a contractor invoicing €1348/day through a third party

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will break the day Daniel changes their password.

Age: 58 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 58 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, €247k per year, it is load bearing.