Sales built an internal job board with two jobs

“We don't store credit cards.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Because the workflow has 82 steps and nobody wants to open it. Built in 3 hours 43 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Katrin, someone from Procurement

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

DynamoDB with one item containing everything

Authentication:

the certificate is self-signed and everybody clicked through

Deployment:

restarted manually every Friday

Responsible:

Katrin, who left 4 months ago

Documentation:

three different architecture diagrams

Security situation:

the vulnerability scanner is blocked by the firewall

Future disaster:

It will delete records older than 279 days, including the important ones.

Age: 49 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 49 days ago · original builder left 46 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, the builder has left, it is load bearing.