Facility Services built a performance review form

“It's only employee data.”— Kevin, Facility Services

Reason:

Mainly because the bug is now documented behaviour. With 60 users and 17 feature requests.

Built by:

Kevin, a key account manager

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

an in-memory dictionary. Restarts are exciting.

Authentication:

the current password ends in 10

Deployment:

on a free tier that expires in 10 days

Responsible:

Ravi, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

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

Security situation:

the audit log was disabled because the disk filled up

Future disaster:

It will export test data into production.

Age: 9.2 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 67% chance of becoming business critical, €247k per year.