Procurement built a warehouse label printer web app

“We can always rebuild it.”— Nadia, Procurement

Reason:

Officially because Sales has a newer spreadsheet. With 59 users and 19 feature requests.

Built by:

Nadia, a working student

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

Notion, with one row per customer

Authentication:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Deployment:

running behind nginx config copied from Stack Overflow

Responsible:

Katrin, according to Jira

Documentation:

a PowerPoint with 74 slides

Security situation:

the firewall rule is 0.0.0.0/0

Future disaster:

It will become part of the company's "digital core" slide deck.

Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 7x longer than intended, 11% chance of becoming business critical, €2k per year.