Information Security built a warehouse stock counter

“It's basically done.”— Miriam, Information Security

Reason:

Allegedly because someone said "just add AI". Built in an afternoon, mostly and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Miriam, an intern

Build time:

1 hours 4 minutes

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins and one critical shortcode

Database:

a column called do_not_use that is required

Authentication:

the tenant ID is a query parameter

Deployment:

hosted on Miriam's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

whoever answers the support email

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

production secrets are in the README

Future disaster:

It will fail during the year-end close.

Age: 38 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 38 days ago

Rated mythic mostly because: 100% chance of becoming business critical, 298 users, 2 accidental connections.