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App #1496 Β· πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ the United States
Disaster score 276Common

Whoever Asked First built a skills matrix

🧟 Builder has leftπŸ›οΈ Older than the department
Users4
Departments0
Criticality15%
Money involved€63,831/yr
β€œIt's only metadata.”— Ravi, Whoever Asked First
Reason:
Mainly because the meeting to fix it created 2 more meetings. Started as Stock_list_v2.csv with a script attached.
Built by:
Ravi, a working student
Build time:
8 minutes
Built with:
an Electron app, for a form
Database:
Cosmos DB because somebody had Azure credits
Authentication:
the read-only account can update records
Deployment:
deployed manually because CI/CD "was taking too long"
Responsible:
Ravi, whose laptop contains the only working environment
Documentation:
a file called how-it-works-v2-final-final.docx
Security situation:
the audit log was disabled because the disk filled up
Future disaster:
It will become a works council agenda item.

Accidentally connected to (1)

  • β†’ reads from a read replica with write permissions

Age: 7.6 years Β· originally expected to last 14 days Β· 3 owners so far Β· survived 1 reorganisation Β· last meaningful change 420 days ago Β· original builder left 1856 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 199x longer than intended, €64k per year, the builder has left.

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