R&D built a cash flow forecast

“It's basically Power Apps.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Mainly because the nightly job requires somebody to click "continue". Built in one weekend and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Chen, a recruiter

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

a serverless architecture with one very stateful function

Database:

a table called temp that has existed for 5 years

Authentication:

the secret is in .env.example

Deployment:

running in Kubernetes with one pod and no reason

Responsible:

Bastian, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

a Confluence page linking to another Confluence page

Security situation:

the API key is called PUBLIC_API_KEY

Future disaster:

It will be described as "legacy" before its first birthday.

Age: 9.2 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 968 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 113x longer than intended, 23% chance of becoming business critical, the builder has left.