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App #1145 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 570Legendary
Business Intelligence built a warehouse stock counter
☠️ No known owner🧟 Builder has left🕸️ Load bearing
Users27
Departments1
Criticality17%
Money involved€180,239/yr
“The API isn't documented.”— Marketing Manager
- Reason:
- Because the admin account belongs to somebody who left 15 months ago. Already exported 128,590 rows to somebody's laptop.
- Built by:
- Katrin, an analyst
- Build time:
- 5 hours 10 minutes
- Built with:
- Express, because NestJS looked like too much work
- Database:
- one table called everything
- Authentication:
- the read-only account can update records
- Deployment:
- running in Docker, but the Dockerfile is missing
- Responsible:
- a shared mailbox nobody reads
- Documentation:
- comments in the code explaining what the code used to do
- Security situation:
- the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data
- Future disaster:
- It will fail five minutes before a board meeting.
Accidentally connected to (5)
- → uses Google Sheets as an event log
- → depends on a folder called Incoming
- → depends on Invoices_Q3_backup.csv having exactly 12 columns
- → depends on somebody forwarding an email
- → depends on a Chrome profile nobody can recreate
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 3.0 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 1021 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, €180k per year, alive 51x longer than intended.
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