The Management Assistant built a cheap copy of a SaaS app

“The quarter ends Friday.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Officially because the approval requires 7 people for a €799 purchase. Built in 5 hours 44 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Jens, someone from Procurement

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Docker Compose on a machine called PROD2

Database:

a second Postgres called prod-2-2, for safety

Authentication:

logging out just hides the menu

Deployment:

deployed from the main branch because branches were confusing

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted

Security situation:

IT was informed. IT has chosen peace.

Future disaster:

It will discover the backup password left with Nadia.

Age: 1.8 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €241k per year, 4 departments depend on it, 41 users.