Finance built an NDA generator

“Management asked for it.”— Priya, Finance

Reason:

Officially because the printer is somehow involved. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Priya, an intern

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

an API endpoint called /getAllData

Authentication:

the audit log is a text file called audit-final.txt

Deployment:

running from an image tagged final-final

Responsible:

Priya, who left 14 months ago

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

security is handled by being "internal only"

Future disaster:

It will turn out to be the only system that knows the real numbers.

Age: 6.5 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 1622 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 79x longer than intended, the builder has left, older than the department using it.