R&D built an internal job board with two jobs

“We'll put it on the roadmap.”— Anja, R&D

Reason:

Officially because the customer asked for one tiny change. Already exported 61,409 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Anja, the management assistant

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

DynamoDB with one item containing everything

Authentication:

the production server is reachable from the guest Wi-Fi

Deployment:

hosted in a cloud region nobody intended to use

Responsible:

IT Service Desk, who has never opened it

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

the security exception expires every year and is renewed every year

Future disaster:

It will be used for an audit nobody told Priya about.

Age: 8.4 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €358k per year, alive 219x longer than intended, 34 users.