The Management Assistant built an invoice matcher

“It's anonymised-ish.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Allegedly because the integration works unless it is Sunday. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Lukas, an analyst

Build time:

43 minutes

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

Notion, with one row per customer

Authentication:

the password was last changed 34 days ago

Deployment:

running with 95% disk usage

Responsible:

a contractor invoicing €1105/day through a third party

Documentation:

an architecture diagram containing a box labelled "magic happens here"

Security situation:

the threat model is "why would anyone attack us?"

Future disaster:

It will get a Jira project before it gets documentation.

Age: 4.1 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, alive 25x longer than intended, 16% chance of becoming business critical.