Quality Assurance built a deployment button

“We only need it until the new ERP goes live.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Honestly? Because Finance has a different spreadsheet. With 16 users and 50 feature requests.

Built by:

Elena, a team lead

Build time:

3 hours 21 minutes

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a second Postgres called main, for safety

Authentication:

the password is the company name plus 2026

Deployment:

running from an image tagged final-final

Responsible:

Chen, who has not touched it in 12 months

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 4 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Elena, who built it

Future disaster:

It will discover the backup password left with Marco.

Age: 2.5 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 301 users, alive 66x longer than intended, 1 accidental connections.