Revenue Operations built a debt collection dashboard

“We'll add backups later.”— Thomas, Revenue Operations

Reason:

Officially because the vendor quoted €2,400 and a discovery phase. Already exported 105,206 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Thomas, someone from Procurement

Build time:

3 hours 19 minutes

Built with:

ChatGPT, copy, paste, repeat

Database:

a SQL Server instance called final-old that nobody is allowed to restart

Authentication:

the security model is "Google probably handles that"

Deployment:

behind a CDN for an app only used inside one building

Responsible:

Thomas, until somebody notices

Documentation:

a README last updated 141 days ago

Security situation:

debug mode is enabled in production

Future disaster:

It will export test data into production.

Age: 136 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 136 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, it is load bearing, alive 10x longer than intended.