Administration built a wrapper around another internal tool

“It's technically not production.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Because the process has 13 steps, 2 of which are "send an email". With a logo generated at 11:44.

Built by:

Priya, a working student

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Firebase, because nobody wanted to design a backend

Database:

money stored as FLOAT

Authentication:

the production token is in Slack

Deployment:

running with 93% disk usage

Responsible:

Finance, according to IT

Documentation:

a Teams recording nobody has permission to open

Security situation:

the firewall rule is 0.0.0.0/0

Future disaster:

It will be used for an audit nobody told Jens about.

Age: 291 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 6 departments depend on it, 2 accidental connections, alive 10x longer than intended.