Funny. At a previous employer, we had a few services that needed access to some data we hadn’t put behind a service yet. For bureaucratic reasons I won’t bore y

Funny. At a previous employer, we had a few services that needed access to some data we hadn’t put behind a service yet. For bureaucratic reasons I won’t bore y’all with, our team wasn’t given the green light to create the needed service to provide access to the data, so a coworker and I created an endpoint on an existing service but we added a requirement that an oddly specific and undocumented HTTP header calling out management must be provided in every request made to the endpoint and then we waited. At some point, someone else needed to use the endpoint and came to us asking why it wasn’t working. We told him about the header. He was annoyed and complained to his manager. The very next week, we got what we wanted: Our new service was up and running! We also got into a bit of trouble over this, but that’s just an extraneous detail — haha.