Department of Questionable Engineering

DQE • doqe.org

Engineering Oversight & Absurd Systems Administration

The Department of Questionable Engineering promotes rigorous-looking procedures, extremely official documentation, and solutions that may be technically correct yet spiritually reckless.

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Office of Questionable Standards

Classification: Unnecessarily Formal
Operating Status: Perpetually Under Review

Mandate: Established under Directive 7.3.1-B to certify, document, and triplicate the nation's most rigorous engineering procedures.

Latest Initiative

Microservice Pencil Sharpener

All the reliability of a pencil sharpener, mediated by a federation of twelve single-purpose services.

The Department's newest invention replaces a pencil sharpener with a federation of twelve single-purpose services. Users must coordinate twelve independent deployments to change one setting; outcomes are scheduled, attested, and eventually delivered. 99.91% uptime, measured generously.

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What We Do

Programs

Bureaucratic initiatives including Redundant Assurance, Over-Optimization, Compliance Theater, and Cloud Coffee.

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Inventions

Patent-pending solutions: distributed toast consensus, containerized kettles, blockchain pens, and OAuth refrigerators.

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Pipelines

Six active GitLab CI pipelines engineered to serve questionable or no purpose at all. YAML downloads available.

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Submit an Idea

Have a concept for questionable engineering? File a proposal for departmental review. All submissions are logged in triplicate.

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Contact

Get in Touch

General Inquiries

info@doqe.org

Press / Media

media@doqe.org

Official Links

Website

https://doqe.org

Proposals for new programs and inventions are accepted through the official submission form.