An intern built a tool checkout system

“The quarter ends Friday.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Officially because Sales has a newer spreadsheet. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Miriam, a key account manager

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps and one mystery webhook

Database:

a SQLite file inside a Docker volume nobody has backed up

Authentication:

the demo account has production access

Deployment:

hosted on a free trial using Priya's credit card

Responsible:

whoever happens to be on call

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2019

Security situation:

security is handled by the fact nobody knows it exists

Future disaster:

It will cause Procurement to ask "what vendor?".

Age: 1.7 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €357k per year, 1 accidental connections, alive 7x longer than intended.