Facilities built a dashboard connected directly to production

“It's technically not production.”— Anja, Facilities

Reason:

Honestly? Because the admin account belongs to somebody who left 6 months ago. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 317 days ago.

Built by:

Anja, a key account manager

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

a Postgres replica that accidentally became primary

Authentication:

the audit log records "something changed"

Deployment:

deployed from a branch called new

Responsible:

Sarah, informally

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2019

Security situation:

the penetration test account had global admin

Future disaster:

It will be described as "legacy" before its first birthday.

Age: 9.0 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 157x longer than intended, 30% chance of becoming business critical, older than the department using it.