HR built a data export tool that exports everything

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because the licence costs €799 per year, per seat. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Lukas, an analyst

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a Postgres database called prod-backup

Authentication:

one shared password, written on a sticky note in Building B

Deployment:

running on a laptop with 18% battery

Responsible:

Chen, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Lukas, who built it

Future disaster:

It will hold the only copy of Headcount_final_v2.xlsx.

Age: 17 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 17 days ago · original builder left 34 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €55k per year, the builder has left, 1 accidental connections.