A Former Employee built a bonus calculator

“We'll add backups later.”— Tobias, A Former Employee

Reason:

Officially because the automation sends an email asking someone to do it manually. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 317 days ago.

Built by:

Tobias, a team lead

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a serverless architecture with one very stateful function

Database:

an API endpoint called /getAllData

Authentication:

the password policy requires one uppercase letter and optimism

Deployment:

deployed manually because CI/CD "was taking too long"

Responsible:

Tobias, because they clicked "create project" first

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Future disaster:

It will be used for payroll by accident.

Age: 60 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 60 days ago · original builder left 30 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 237 users, the builder has left, 1 accidental connections.