Digital Transformation built an incident response dashboard

“We have a backup somewhere.”— Chen, Digital Transformation

Reason:

Because the documentation starts with "TODO". Built in one weekend and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Chen, a product owner

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

one table with 174 columns

Authentication:

the audit log is console.log

Deployment:

deployed with a shell script called deploy-final.sh

Responsible:

Sofia, until somebody notices

Documentation:

a Confluence page copied from another project

Security situation:

the threat model is "why would anyone attack us?"

Future disaster:

It will be used for payroll by accident.

Age: 220 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 220 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 61 users, 27% chance of becoming business critical, €20k per year.