Warehouse built a reconciliation tool for three systems that definitely do not agree

“We barely store passwords.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Mainly because the budget expires on Friday. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Chen, an analyst

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Teams bot nobody remembers installing

Database:

Redis with persistence disabled because "it is only a cache"

Authentication:

the security contact is whoever notices first

Deployment:

hosted on a cloud account costing €30.31/month

Responsible:

Nadia, who only knows the database

Documentation:

an Excel tab called Instructions

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Jira ticket

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Petra leaves the company.

Age: 15 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 15 days ago · original builder left 53 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 58% chance of becoming business critical, €32k per year, the builder has left.