Quality Assurance built a CSV merger

“We'll tell IT once it works.”— Sarah, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Because the licence costs €249 per named user. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Sarah, a key account manager

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

Postgres, but accessed directly from the frontend

Database:

a private Slack channel called #data-backup

Authentication:

SSO, but only for Daniel

Deployment:

in a Docker container nobody can rebuild

Responsible:

Olivier, because they clicked "create project" first

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

the firewall rule is 0.0.0.0/0

Future disaster:

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

Age: 20 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 20 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €299k per year, 2 departments depend on it, 7 users.