CEO's Daughter built a KPI dashboard

“It's technically not production.”— Petra, CEO's Daughter

Reason:

Allegedly because the export takes 27 minutes and sometimes produces an empty file. Forked from a tutorial at 08:25 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Petra, a field technician

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Access, because the database was already there

Database:

Firebase with the admin SDK key committed to Git

Authentication:

IP allow-list containing 0.0.0.0/0

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

a former employee still helping occasionally

Documentation:

a README describing a version that no longer exists

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will get SSO after somebody shares the password publicly.

Age: 2.0 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 775 users, alive 106x longer than intended, 1 accidental connections.