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App #1032 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 274Common
The Person Who Knows Power Automate built a lunch order aggregator
☠️ No known owner🧟 Builder has left
Users1
Departments0
Criticality9%
Money involved€0/yr
“There's already a Jira ticket.”— Ravi, The Person Who Knows Power Automate
- Reason:
- Officially because the CEO asked for it in a corridor on a Thursday. Forked from a tutorial at 17:05 and never cleaned up.
- Built by:
- Ravi, a field technician
- Build time:
- a long Thursday
- Built with:
- an internal API copied from a Stack Overflow answer
- Database:
- an FTP server containing folders called NEW, NEW2 and FINAL
- Authentication:
- the session cookie expires in 10 years
- Deployment:
- running from an image tagged latest
- Responsible:
- a shared mailbox nobody reads
- Documentation:
- a PowerPoint with 53 slides
- Security situation:
- the API key has never been rotated
- Future disaster:
- It will cause Legal to ask "who approved this?".
Accidentally connected to (3)
- → scrapes another internal app
- → depends on a vendor account nobody can log into
- → depends on a folder called Final
Age: 4.5 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 156 days ago
Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, alive 233x longer than intended, nobody owns it.
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