Facility Services built a compliance evidence collector

“We'll replace it next year.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Allegedly because the official HR system takes 17 clicks to change a phone number. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Ravi, a key account manager

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a Raspberry Pi with 9 years of production data

Authentication:

the audit log records "something changed"

Deployment:

deployed from a Git commit nobody has pushed

Responsible:

a Teams channel with 7 active members

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will get monitoring after the first outage.

Age: 152 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 26 users, alive 2x longer than intended, 1% chance of becoming business critical.