Marketing built a third CRM

“The service account needs those permissions.”— Sarah, Marketing

Reason:

Because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "magic". With 124 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Sarah, a recruiter

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

a vector database because somebody said RAG

Authentication:

the firewall rule says "temporary"

Deployment:

running from an image tagged latest

Responsible:

a consultancy that changed its name twice

Documentation:

Katrin's memory

Security situation:

the last security review happened before the application existed

Future disaster:

It will cause Plant Manager to request an immediate status meeting.

Age: 330 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 28 users, alive 11x longer than intended, 1 accidental connections.