Someone From Head Office built a territory planner

“The password is really long.”— Kevin, Someone From Head Office

Reason:

Officially because the export takes 43 minutes and sometimes produces an empty file. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Kevin, a working student

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

Firebase with the admin SDK key committed to Git

Authentication:

MFA exists, but everyone clicked "remember this device forever"

Deployment:

running with 95% disk usage

Responsible:

a team that has since been reorganised

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 141 days ago

Security situation:

the service account is also a real employee

Future disaster:

It will cause HR Generalist to request an immediate status meeting.

Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 455 days ago · original builder left 176 days ago

Rated mythic mostly because: 671 users, 100% chance of becoming business critical, 2 accidental connections.