Operations built a licence renewal reminder

“We'll add SSO later.”— Chen, Operations

Reason:

Mainly because the licence costs €49 per month, billed annually. With 609 users and 33 feature requests.

Built by:

Chen, an analyst

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Lovable, and a pinch of stupidity

Database:

a MySQL database called prod on a machine under a desk

Authentication:

the shared account belongs to Nadia, who left 15 months ago

Deployment:

restarted manually every Tuesday

Responsible:

whoever happens to be on call

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2022

Security situation:

the app is secure because the browser shows a padlock

Future disaster:

It will be reported to the data protection officer by a customer.

Age: 1.5 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 239 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 96% chance of becoming business critical, 5 departments depend on it, €183k per year.