Logistics built an expense approval workflow

“We'll migrate it eventually.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because Friday at 23:35 seemed like a reasonable time to deploy. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Anja, a working student

Build time:

5 hours 34 minutes

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

14,699 XML files

Authentication:

the production URL still uses :8080

Deployment:

hosted on a server shared with 11 unrelated applications

Responsible:

the business

Documentation:

an architecture diagram containing a box labelled "magic happens here"

Security situation:

the refresh token never expires

Future disaster:

It will send an invoice of €38,000 to the wrong country.

Age: 75 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 75 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 departments depend on it, €25k per year, alive 5x longer than intended.