Quality Assurance built a visitor sign-in kiosk

“We'll tell IT once it works.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Officially because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "magic". With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Marco, a controller

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

Kafka with one consumer called Sofia-final-v2

Authentication:

no login. It is on the intranet, so it is fine.

Deployment:

running on an EC2 instance somebody resized manually

Responsible:

Katrin, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

the penetration test account had global admin

Future disaster:

It will break the day Marco changes their password.

Age: 217 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 52 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 90 users, 2 accidental connections, the builder has left.