Finance built a vendor onboarding portal

“We have a diagram.”— Tobias, Finance

Reason:

Because the source of truth is an email attachment from June. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Tobias, a working student

Build time:

3 evenings

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

Firebase with open read rules since November

Authentication:

the security review was postponed until after launch

Deployment:

sharing a reverse proxy with the company Christmas raffle

Responsible:

IT, according to Finance

Documentation:

a Confluence page linking to another Confluence page

Security situation:

production secrets are in Git history

Future disaster:

It will be reported to the data protection officer by a customer.

Age: 226 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 432 users, 2 accidental connections, 16% chance of becoming business critical.