Data Protection built a customer portal

“We only need it until the migration.”— Ravi, Data Protection

Reason:

Honestly? Because someone said "can't ChatGPT do this?". Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Ravi, someone from Procurement

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Streamlit, somehow now in production

Database:

a folder called DO_NOT_DELETE_OLD

Authentication:

the password is the company name backwards

Deployment:

running with 91% disk usage

Responsible:

a former employee still helping occasionally

Documentation:

a Loom video recorded at 1.5x speed

Security situation:

CORS is set to * because it fixed the issue

Future disaster:

It will be presented at a conference as a success story.

Age: 2.8 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 190 users, 4 accidental connections, alive 49x longer than intended.