Quality Assurance built a lunch order aggregator

“We'll document it after the quarter.”— Ravi, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Officially because the official form has 29 fields and not the one that matters. With 22 users and 71 feature requests.

Built by:

Ravi, an analyst

Build time:

3 hours 48 minutes

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

Firebase with open read rules since October

Authentication:

IP allow-list containing 0.0.0.0/0

Deployment:

deployed Monday at 11:58

Responsible:

a contractor invoicing €644/day through a third party

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

it emails a CSV of everything at 16:17, nightly

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by a second version of itself.

Age: 23 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 76% chance of becoming business critical, 233 users, €255k per year.