Dog Shelter Team built a price list with its own opinions

“It's faster this way.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Allegedly because the shared password was last changed 823 days ago. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Thomas, a recruiter

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

Trello cards with JSON in the descriptions

Authentication:

MFA is enabled for 3 people

Deployment:

running from an image tagged final-final

Responsible:

Katrin, according to Jira

Documentation:

an architecture diagram containing a box labelled "magic happens here"

Security situation:

every error response includes the full stack trace

Future disaster:

It will become part of the company's "digital core" slide deck.

Age: 61 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, €14k per year, 4 users.