R&D built a warehouse label printer web app

“The service account needs those permissions.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Officially because the workaround has been in production for 4 months. Already exported 110,876 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Thomas, someone from Procurement

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

Kafka. Nobody remembers why.

Authentication:

the temporary firewall rule has existed for 9 months

Deployment:

hosted in a cloud region nobody intended to use

Responsible:

a steering committee that has not met in 15 months

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2021

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Jira ticket

Future disaster:

It will eventually process €2,400 per month.

Age: 3.6 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €1.2m per year, 91 users, alive 94x longer than intended.