Master Data Management built a wrapper around another internal tool

“There's already a Confluence page.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Because the dashboard is updated manually every Tuesday. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Thomas, a product owner

Build time:

2 hours 16 minutes

Built with:

Kubernetes, for one container

Database:

a MongoDB with no password on port 27018

Authentication:

the audit log is a text file called audit-final.txt

Deployment:

deployed from Thomas's laptop

Responsible:

the person sitting closest to the printer

Documentation:

comments in the code explaining what the code used to do

Security situation:

CORS is set to * because it fixed the issue

Future disaster:

It will process the same invoice 5 times.

Age: 224 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €110k per year, 2 accidental connections, 33% chance of becoming business critical.