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“The password changes every year.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Mainly because the nightly job requires somebody to click "continue". Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Daniel, someone from Procurement

Build time:

3 evenings

Built with:

Zapier being used as middleware

Database:

an Oracle database that costs more than the application

Authentication:

the JWT secret is "changeme"

Deployment:

deployed 35 minutes before the builder went on holiday

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

two architecture diagrams that disagree

Security situation:

MFA was disabled after somebody lost their phone

Future disaster:

It will get rewritten, producing exactly the same system.

Age: 14 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €269k per year, 12 users, 2% chance of becoming business critical.