Enterprise Architecture built a deployment button

“It's just a cron job.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because the fax machine is still somehow involved. Quietly rolled out to two countries.

Built by:

Jens, a recruiter

Build time:

2 hours 28 minutes

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

sessionStorage, because localStorage felt too permanent

Authentication:

Bastian is still an admin because removing access felt risky

Deployment:

hosted in a cloud region nobody intended to use

Responsible:

nobody officially, Katrin emotionally

Documentation:

two architecture diagrams that disagree

Security situation:

the penetration test found it by accident

Future disaster:

It will trigger a call from the works council.

Age: 104 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 96 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €197k per year, nobody owns it, the builder has left.