Operations built a vendor onboarding portal

“We'll put it on the roadmap.”— Bastian, Operations

Reason:

Mainly because the temporary solution has survived 6 managers. Forked from a tutorial at 08:33 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Bastian, an intern

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

the new database plus the old database "for comparison"

Authentication:

the logout button refreshes the page

Deployment:

hosted on the demo environment, permanently

Responsible:

Katrin, until somebody notices

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2020

Security situation:

the firewall rule is labelled TEMP

Future disaster:

It will eventually need a migration project larger than the app itself.

Age: 4.4 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 55% chance of becoming business critical, alive 54x longer than intended, 1 accidental connections.