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What's the dumbest thing you've shipped? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by snuff@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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18 month project is winding down. I suspect it will have 1 use in the next 4 years we are supporting it.

The tool is basically a copy of the S3 browser, only shittier. The license for the S3 browser is only 20 bucks btw.

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[–] YourAvgMortal@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This was a series of decisions with good intentions that went poorly in the long run.

Our customer wanted us to setup a system so their users could track their products from their site from a variety of carriers; but their backend was very old and difficult to work with, and their network very locked down.

We were struggling to setup a single carrier, so we eventually decided to setup a new server with modern tooling on our own network so we could develop this and other “complicated” features with less pain, and they would only have to make a single exception to their firewall.

Fast forward a year and:

They didn’t request any more “difficult” features, so the server was serving a single API
One of our carrier’s API keys had expired and nobody noticed because they weren’t using it, and they didn’t request support for additional carriers either
Somebody on their security team noticed the strange calls to our servers and demanded we moved the API to their infrastructure anyway

[–] snuff@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I first joined my current company, they let me and another junior kinda have free reign because they didn't know what to do with us.

Another team wanted to automate a tedious task so we volunteered and dove in. I learned a lot about PKI and the tool was going to be useful in a lot of places in the company. The other engineer and I thought we were on our way to a patent lol.

After presenting our work to an eager manager, we were given the green light to implement it. When the various design, network, and security engineers saw what we were planning on doing they nearly shit themselves lol.

We had basically created a bespoke package manager and CA and were crossing every network boundary out company had. I did get a gift card though so that was nice 🤷‍♀️