Marketing built a company-wide announcement tool

“There are only like twelve users.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Because the ERP is only reachable on the VPN, which drops every 19 minutes. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Thomas, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

a mini PC behind the reception desk

Authentication:

no login. It is on the intranet, so it is fine.

Deployment:

running on a development server labelled DO NOT RESTART

Responsible:

whoever happens to be on call

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 623 days ago

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Jira ticket

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by another tool built by Katrin.

Age: 8.3 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 101x longer than intended, older than the department using it, 1 departments depend on it.