Procurement built a deployment button

“Microsoft probably handles that.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Because the budget appeared unexpectedly on Friday. Already exported 57,349 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Olivier, a recruiter

Build time:

2 hours 35 minutes

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

an FTP server containing folders called NEW, NEW2 and FINAL

Authentication:

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

Deployment:

hosted in a cloud region nobody intended to use

Responsible:

Katrin, because they clicked "create project" first

Documentation:

a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"

Security situation:

the encryption key is in the source code

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct pricing data.

Age: 92 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 92 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 1 accidental connections, 1 users, 3% chance of becoming business critical.