Compliance built an anonymous feedback tool that records email addresses

“ChatGPT can probably regenerate it.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Allegedly because the integration has been "temporarily disabled" for 8 months. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Priya, a recruiter

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

Neo4j because someone drew arrows on a whiteboard

Authentication:

the intern has production access

Deployment:

on a free tier that expires in 14 days

Responsible:

Sarah, according to Jira

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Priya, who built it

Future disaster:

It will break the day Priya changes their password.

Age: 33 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 33 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, 94% chance of becoming business critical, 348 users.