IT (yes, really) built a contract deadline reminder bot

“It's too obscure to attack.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Because the demo environment contains real customer data. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Chen, a recruiter

Build time:

4 hours 12 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a JSON file in Git called production-data.json

Authentication:

the production URL still uses :8080

Deployment:

behind a load balancer pointing to exactly one machine

Responsible:

Sarah, because everyone else refused

Documentation:

a Confluence page linking to another Confluence page

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will get backups after the first data loss.

Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 15x longer than intended, 8 users, €37 per year.