Operations built a customer portal

Reason:

Allegedly because IT said no, politely, in writing. Started as a Google Sheet with a script.

Built by:

unclear

Build time:

unknown

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

a Google Sheet with 90,000 rows

Authentication:

the password is the company name plus 2024

Deployment:

in a Docker container nobody can rebuild

Responsible:

Kevin. Only Kevin.

Documentation:

one README with a TODO

Security situation:

it has an admin panel, unlinked, unprotected

Future disaster:

It will be presented at a conference as a success story.

Rated common mostly because: 1 departments depend on it, 10% chance of becoming business critical, 4 users.