What you are claiming
Marketing Operations built an internal URL shortener
“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Bastian, Marketing Operations
- Reason:
- Mainly because someone said "just add AI". With dark mode and no error handling.
- Built by:
- Bastian, a controller
- Build time:
- a long Thursday
- Built with:
- Lovable, and a pinch of stupidity
- Database:
- SAP, indirectly, through 12 CSV exports
- Authentication:
- the temporary firewall rule has existed for 11 months
- Deployment:
- running in a Kubernetes cluster created for a proof of concept
- Responsible:
- Bastian, who left 6 months ago
- Documentation:
- a PowerPoint with 67 slides
- Security situation:
- security is handled by the fact nobody knows it exists
- Future disaster:
- It will silently stop syncing and nobody will notice for 3 months.
Accidentally connected to (2)
- → depends on LibreOffice rendering the spreadsheet correctly
- → depends on another app also nobody owns
Age: 320 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 320 days ago
Rated mythic mostly because: 649 users, €730k per year, 100% chance of becoming business critical.
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Marketing Operations built an internal URL shortener
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