The Canteen built a software licence tracker

“There's already a Jira ticket.”— Jens, The Canteen

Reason:

Because the tiny change needs approval from 2 people. Forked from a tutorial at 17:46 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Jens, the management assistant

Build time:

5 evenings

Built with:

Kafka, for reasons lost to history

Database:

an FTP server nobody knows the password for

Authentication:

passwords are stored in plaintext, for troubleshooting

Deployment:

using a self-signed certificate everybody has accepted

Responsible:

a vendor whose support contract expired 10 months ago

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Sofia, who left

Security situation:

the penetration test account had global admin

Future disaster:

It will stop working the day the free tier ends.

Age: 239 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 154 users, 41% chance of becoming business critical, 1 accidental connections.