Marketing Operations built an internal URL shortener

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Bastian, Marketing Operations

Reason:

Mainly because someone said "just add AI". With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Bastian, a controller

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Lovable, and a pinch of stupidity

Database:

SAP, indirectly, through 12 CSV exports

Authentication:

the temporary firewall rule has existed for 11 months

Deployment:

running in a Kubernetes cluster created for a proof of concept

Responsible:

Bastian, who left 6 months ago

Documentation:

a PowerPoint with 67 slides

Security situation:

security is handled by the fact nobody knows it exists

Future disaster:

It will silently stop syncing and nobody will notice for 3 months.

Age: 320 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 320 days ago

Rated mythic mostly because: 649 users, €730k per year, 100% chance of becoming business critical.