Someone From Accounting built a contract repository with no search

“We didn't have time for a ticket.”— Petra, Someone From Accounting

Reason:

Mainly because the bug is now documented behaviour. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Petra, a recruiter

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app wrapping a website

Database:

a column called misc2 because misc was already taken

Authentication:

Anja knows the password

Deployment:

running on a server nobody remembers provisioning

Responsible:

Bastian, because their email address is in the config

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

the data protection officer does not know it exists

Future disaster:

It will be mentioned in an audit finding using the words "material weakness".

Age: 116 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €305k per year, 4 accidental connections, 2 departments depend on it.