Facilities built a warehouse label printer web app

“The workshop was tomorrow.”— Priya, Facilities

Reason:

Mainly because the demo environment contains real customer data. Quietly rolled out to five countries.

Built by:

Priya, someone from Procurement

Build time:

2 evenings

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a Postgres database called production

Authentication:

the guest account can see more than expected

Deployment:

running from an image tagged latest

Responsible:

whoever happens to be on call

Documentation:

an Excel tab called Instructions

Security situation:

TLS is disabled because it is "inside the network"

Future disaster:

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

Age: 1.1 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 56x longer than intended, €6k per year, 1 users.