Facility Services built an office lunch ordering tool

“It's only one database.”— Chen, Facility Services

Reason:

Officially because the shared password was last changed 88 days ago. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Chen, a team lead

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

a CSV that gets overwritten every Friday

Authentication:

the password manager is someone's browser

Deployment:

hosted in a cloud region nobody intended to use

Responsible:

Marco, who only knows the database

Documentation:

a photographed whiteboard from a workshop

Security situation:

the temporary firewall rule is 5 months old

Future disaster:

It will be used for an audit nobody told Thomas about.

Age: 15 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 37 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €155k per year, the builder has left, 5 users.