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App #101 · 🇸🇬 Singapore
Disaster score 570Legendary
Procurement built a commission calculator with a rounding bug
☠️ No known owner🧟 Builder has left🕸️ Load bearing
Users5
Departments1
Criticality12%
Money involved€16,362/yr
“It has a login screen.”— IT Service Desk
- Reason:
- Because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". Started as Headcount_final_FINAL.xlsm with a script attached.
- Built by:
- Miriam, a recruiter
- Build time:
- 2 hours 22 minutes
- Built with:
- plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery
- Database:
- Neo4j because someone drew arrows on a whiteboard
- Authentication:
- the security model is "Google probably handles that"
- Deployment:
- running on Windows Server because that machine was available
- Responsible:
- a shared mailbox nobody reads
- Documentation:
- a README describing a version that no longer exists
- Security situation:
- the privacy policy refers to a different application
- Future disaster:
- It will turn out to contain the only correct customer addresses.
Accidentally connected to (5)
- → uses OneDrive as a database backup
- → scrapes the official system because it has no API
- → syncs every 28 minutes and calls that real-time
- → depends on a VPN connection that drops every afternoon
- → shares one API key with 2 other tools
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 25 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 25 days ago · original builder left 31 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, nobody owns it, the builder has left.
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