The Spreadsheet Committee built a vulnerability tracker

“It's only one database.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Officially because the demo environment contains real customer data. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Miriam, someone from Procurement

Build time:

9 evenings

Built with:

Supabase, with the service role key somewhere unfortunate

Database:

MongoDB containing a collection called test2_final

Authentication:

the password is the company name plus 2023

Deployment:

hosted in Nadia's Azure subscription

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

a Notion page titled "New docs"

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will be used for an audit nobody told Kevin about.

Age: 38 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 62% chance of becoming business critical, 121 users, alive 2x longer than intended.