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App #1053 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 632Legendary
Compliance built an anonymous feedback tool that records email addresses
🔥 Business critical🕸️ Load bearing
Users348
Departments2
Criticality94%
Money involved€10,664/yr
“ChatGPT can probably regenerate it.”— Managing Director
- Reason:
- Allegedly because the integration has been "temporarily disabled" for 8 months. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".
- Built by:
- Priya, a recruiter
- Build time:
- one weekend
- Built with:
- a no-code builder on a personal account
- Database:
- Neo4j because someone drew arrows on a whiteboard
- Authentication:
- the intern has production access
- Deployment:
- on a free tier that expires in 14 days
- Responsible:
- Sarah, according to Jira
- Documentation:
- an email with the subject "quick overview"
- Security situation:
- it was reviewed once, by Priya, who built it
- Future disaster:
- It will break the day Priya changes their password.
Accidentally connected to (6)
- → receives production data from an IP address hard-coded in source
- → depends on another app also nobody owns
- → depends on drive Z: existing
- → depends on a SaaS trial ending soon
- → expects Nadia to press the button first
- → depends on an application scheduled for decommissioning
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 33 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 33 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, 94% chance of becoming business critical, 348 users.
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