The New Guy built a laptop request portal

“We have a diagram.”— Olivier, The New Guy

Reason:

Officially because the approval chain includes 8 people and one shared mailbox. Already exported 9,692 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Olivier, a controller

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

Postgres, but accessed directly from the frontend

Database:

Teams chat history

Authentication:

logging out just hides the menu

Deployment:

running from a zip file called Stock_list_final_FINAL.xlsx

Responsible:

Chen, who only knows the database

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Jira ticket

Future disaster:

It will become impossible to shut down because 17 other tools depend on it.

Age: 117 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, 130 users, it is load bearing.