Legal built an exit interview tracker

“It's only employee data.”— Chen, Legal

Reason:

Mainly because the mandatory field is documented as optional. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 623 days ago.

Built by:

Chen, a team lead

Build time:

19 minutes

Built with:

Kafka, for reasons lost to history

Database:

Redis with persistence disabled because "it is only a cache"

Authentication:

the secret is in .env.example

Deployment:

deployed from Thomas's laptop

Responsible:

whoever happens to be on call

Documentation:

a Loom video nobody can find

Security situation:

security is handled by being "internal only"

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct customer addresses.

Age: 14 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €930k per year, 53% chance of becoming business critical, 3 accidental connections.