Legal built Excel, but in React

“The password is really long.”— Katrin, Legal

Reason:

Allegedly because the bug was closed because nobody replied for 141 days. With 31 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Katrin, a team lead

Build time:

1 hours 38 minutes

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

a GitHub Gist that became business critical

Authentication:

the refresh token never expires, for convenience

Deployment:

hosted in Miriam's Azure subscription

Responsible:

Marco, because their email address is in the config

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 6 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

the audit log records "updated successfully"

Future disaster:

It will get a support rota before it gets an owner.

Age: 14 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 14 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, 48 users, 24% chance of becoming business critical.