CEO Office built an internal wiki with 11 pages

“It's internal.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Officially because the process has 18 steps, 2 of which are "send an email". Already exported 185,891 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Jens, a working student

Build time:

2 evenings

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

a private Slack channel called #data-backup

Authentication:

the app is secure because it has a padlock icon

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

a consultancy that changed its name twice

Documentation:

a folder called OLD_DO_NOT_USE containing the current documentation

Security situation:

security is handled by the fact nobody knows it exists

Future disaster:

It will get its own budget line before it gets an owner.

Age: 243 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, €300k per year, 66% chance of becoming business critical.