Compliance built an invoice approval app

“Vercel probably handles backups.”— Chen, Compliance

Reason:

Mainly because the approval chain includes 5 people and one shared mailbox. Already exported 114,503 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Chen, a product owner

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

GraphQL, for three fields

Database:

one table called data

Authentication:

the login page is protected by another login page

Deployment:

deployed with a shell script called deploy-final.sh

Responsible:

Chen, a product owner. Only Chen.

Documentation:

a spreadsheet cell containing "ask Kevin"

Security situation:

the JWT secret is "changeme"

Future disaster:

It will become impossible to shut down because 5 other tools depend on it.

Age: 1.1 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 197 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, 30% chance of becoming business critical, the builder has left.