Legal built a demo environment that became production

“The password is really long.”— Sarah, Legal

Reason:

Because the integration has been "temporarily disabled" for 8 months. With 24 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Sarah, a team lead

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

localStorage. That is the whole backend.

Authentication:

the intern has production access

Deployment:

deployed by emailing Suppliers_use-this-one.xlsx to Petra

Responsible:

Daniel, who has never seen the source code

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

the security review consisted of Thomas saying "looks fine"

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Olivier leaves the company.

Age: 4.7 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 6 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 240 users, 4 accidental connections, alive 19x longer than intended.