The Berlin Office built a damaged goods register

“We're too small to get hacked.”— Katrin, The Berlin Office

Reason:

Mainly because the ticket has been open for 34 days. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Katrin, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Firebase, because nobody wanted to design a backend

Database:

three databases, each claiming to be the source of truth

Authentication:

the password was last changed 823 days ago

Deployment:

running in Docker Compose on a machine named prod-backup-2

Responsible:

Daniel, informally

Documentation:

Sofia's memory

Security situation:

the security exception expires every year and is renewed every year

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct pricing data.

Age: 19 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 departments depend on it, 10% chance of becoming business critical, 1 users.