The Munich Office built an expense approval workflow

“We'll clean it up after the audit.”— Kevin, The Munich Office

Reason:

Honestly? Because the Miro board is now the documentation. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Kevin, a product owner

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

Python, Flask and no requirements.txt

Database:

an Oracle database that costs more than the application

Authentication:

nobody knows the password, but the browser still does

Deployment:

running in Docker Compose on a machine named new-2

Responsible:

Chen, informally

Documentation:

a Confluence page linking to another Confluence page

Security situation:

the audit log also contains passwords

Future disaster:

It will get rewritten, producing exactly the same system.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 21 users, 9% chance of becoming business critical.