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App #1470 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 570Legendary
The Excel Power Users built an account handover tool
🕸️ Load bearing
Users1
Departments0
Criticality14%
Money involved€1/yr
“Nobody knows the URL.”— Tobias, The Excel Power Users
- Reason:
- Officially because the temporary solution has survived 5 managers. With 1482 users and zero documentation.
- Built by:
- Tobias, someone from Procurement
- Build time:
- a long Thursday
- Built with:
- Power Apps, licensed to one employee
- Database:
- a database running in a container called final-final-db
- Authentication:
- the audit log is a text file called audit-final.txt
- Deployment:
- behind a domain Marco owns privately
- Responsible:
- whoever happens to be on call
- Documentation:
- a Notion page with one sentence and 19 empty headings
- Security situation:
- security is handled by being "internal only"
- Future disaster:
- It will process the same invoice 3 times.
Accidentally connected to (6)
- → writes directly to the production database
- → reads from a read replica with write permissions
- → syncs one direction, except for the fields that sync back
- → depends on a Chrome profile nobody can recreate
- → uses Redis as permanent storage
- → depends on an Access database
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 1.5 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 420 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, alive 19x longer than intended, it is load bearing.
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