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What is the worst IT setup you have seen at a company?

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  • I was a backend developer for a startup company where:

    • Windows servers without any firewall and security hardening.
    • Docker swarm without WSL. We had to use 4 GB Windows base images for 50MB web apps.
    • MSSQL without any replication and backups.
    • Redis installed on Windows via 3rd-party tool that looked like a 2010 era keygen generator.
    • A malware exploited the Redis * what a surprise * and kept killing processes to mine crypto on CPU...
    • VPS provider forgot to activate new Windows Server on production and it kept restart for every 30 minutes until I checked the logs and notified them about the missing license.

    I left there after 6 months.

    • The blind determination to use a desktop OS to do a server's job.

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