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App #1011 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 513Rare
Executive Office built a meeting action tracker
☠️ No known owner🧟 Builder has left🏛️ Older than the department
Users107
Departments3
Criticality19%
Money involved€101,093/yr
“The password is really long.”— IT Service Desk
- Reason:
- Honestly? Because the customer asked for one tiny change. With a settings page that does nothing.
- Built by:
- Sarah, a recruiter
- Build time:
- 7 evenings
- Built with:
- an internal API copied from a Stack Overflow answer
- Database:
- booleans stored as "yes", "no", "Y", "N" and occasionally "maybe"
- Authentication:
- the certificate expired 34 days ago
- Deployment:
- running with 97% memory usage and "seems fine"
- Responsible:
- nobody officially, Tobias emotionally
- Documentation:
- an onboarding call everyone is expected to remember
- Security situation:
- the admin account is also the service account
- Future disaster:
- It will become a works council agenda item.
Accidentally connected to (3)
- → reads directly from the production database
- → downloads a CSV from SAP at 03:00
- → depends on dates staying in DD/MM/YYYY
Age: 7.2 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 1308 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: 3 accidental connections, 107 users, €101k per year.
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