Enterprise Architecture built a root cause analysis form with five required dropdowns

“We'll tell Security once it works.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Officially because the CEO tested it on an iPad. Forked from a tutorial at 11:38 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Petra, a controller

Build time:

5 evenings

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

Cosmos DB because somebody had Azure credits

Authentication:

the password policy requires one uppercase letter and optimism

Deployment:

running from an image tagged latest

Responsible:

a contractor invoicing €1375/day through a third party

Documentation:

a README last updated 411 days ago

Security situation:

the API key has never been rotated

Future disaster:

It will hold the only copy of Customers_final_FINAL.csv.

Age: 145 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 145 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, it is load bearing, €24k per year.