Quality Assurance built a payment run checker

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Because the fax machine is still somehow involved. Started as Suppliers_FIXED.xlsx with a script attached.

Built by:

Chen, an analyst

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

Express, because NestJS looked like too much work

Database:

Kafka. Nobody remembers why.

Authentication:

the role is stored in localStorage

Deployment:

running from a zip file called Headcount_new.csv

Responsible:

Chen, who left 2 months ago

Documentation:

comments in the code explaining what the code used to do

Security situation:

all users technically have admin permissions

Future disaster:

It will delete records older than 56 days, including the important ones.

Age: 1.4 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 455 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 93 users, alive 24x longer than intended, the builder has left.