The CEO's Assistant built an expense approval portal

“It's more of a proof of concept.”— Jens, The CEO's Assistant

Reason:

Officially because the last 10% is authentication, billing and everything else. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Jens, someone from Procurement

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Bootstrap 3 and a dream

Database:

a Docker volume called main and a prayer

Authentication:

IP allow-list containing 0.0.0.0/0

Deployment:

running on Windows Server because that machine was available

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

a README containing 9 broken links

Security situation:

the database is reachable from the public internet

Future disaster:

It will outlive the vendor that was supposed to replace it.

Age: 25 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 25 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 127 users, 1 departments depend on it, €7k per year.