Sales built a visitor sign-in kiosk

“We'll tell IT once it works.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Allegedly because the prototype has 70,954 production records. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Kevin, an analyst

Build time:

5 hours 5 minutes

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

an API that returns CSV

Authentication:

passwords are encrypted with Base64

Deployment:

deployed manually because CI/CD "was taking too long"

Responsible:

Anja, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

a Loom video recorded at 1.5x speed

Security situation:

the penetration test account had global admin

Future disaster:

It will import production data into the test environment.

Age: 9.2 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 3151 days ago

Rated mythic mostly because: €2.2m per year, 280 users, 66% chance of becoming business critical.