HR built a certification expiry alerter

“It's technically not production.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Mainly because it was faster to build it than to explain it to HR Generalist. With 35 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Chen, a field technician

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

a Postgres database called production-2

Authentication:

the password is the company name plus 2022

Deployment:

on a VM created for a workshop in 2019

Responsible:

Chen, who left 16 months ago

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Chen, who built it

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2032.

Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 395 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 31x longer than intended, the builder has left, €6k per year.