The Factory Floor built a vector search tool for an Excel file

“It's only metadata.”— Thomas, The Factory Floor

Reason:

Mainly because the Miro board is now the documentation. Quietly rolled out to two countries.

Built by:

Thomas, the management assistant

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Kubernetes, for one container

Database:

the production database, directly, with write access

Authentication:

the threat model is "why would anyone attack us?"

Deployment:

deployed every time Anja remembers

Responsible:

Bastian, until somebody notices

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

it has an admin panel, unlinked, unprotected

Future disaster:

It will silently stop syncing and nobody will notice for 3 months.

Age: 1.4 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €228k per year, 3 accidental connections, direct production access.