Compliance built a contractor register

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Miriam, Compliance

Reason:

Mainly because somebody watched a 42 minute tutorial. Already exported 79,994 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Miriam, an analyst

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

two databases kept "mostly in sync"

Authentication:

the write-only account can also read

Deployment:

running with 91% disk usage

Responsible:

IT Service Desk, who calls it "the little tool"

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

passwords are stored in a spreadsheet for emergencies

Future disaster:

It will get an SLA before it gets a test suite.

Age: 18 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 18 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 95% chance of becoming business critical, €261k per year, 2 accidental connections.