Investor Relations built a candidate referral portal

“We only need it until the new ERP goes live.”— Thomas, Investor Relations

Reason:

Officially because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "magic". Started as copy of copy of Suppliers_new.xlsx with a script attached.

Built by:

Thomas, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

4 evenings

Built with:

Kubernetes, for one container

Database:

a column called misc2 because misc was already taken

Authentication:

JWT validation checks that the token looks like a JWT

Deployment:

last successfully deployed 88 days ago

Responsible:

Priya, until somebody notices

Documentation:

a calendar invite description from March

Security situation:

the user's role is stored in localStorage

Future disaster:

It will become part of the company's "digital core" slide deck.

Age: 139 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 139 days ago · original builder left 59 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 136 users, €43k per year, 2 departments depend on it.