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App #1506 · 🇳🇱 the Netherlands
Disaster score 434Rare
Operational Excellence built a reconciliation tool for three systems that definitely do not agree
🔥 Business critical🧟 Builder has left
Users109
Departments0
Criticality77%
Money involved€34,329/yr
“It's not really an application.”— Plant Manager
- Reason:
- Honestly? Because Finance has a different spreadsheet. With a logo generated at 16:31.
- Built by:
- Thomas, a working student
- Build time:
- 8 minutes
- Built with:
- an Electron app wrapping a website
- Database:
- RabbitMQ with 89 unacknowledged messages
- Authentication:
- an API key in the frontend bundle
- Deployment:
- running from a zip file called Invoices_Q3_FIXED.xlsx
- Responsible:
- Marco, currently on parental leave
- Documentation:
- a Teams recording nobody has permission to open
- Security situation:
- the incident response plan starts with "call Marco"
- Future disaster:
- It will be replaced by another tool built by Bastian.
Accidentally connected to (3)
- → does not retry failed jobs at all
- → depends on email attachments arriving before 07:00
- → sends 123,183 records through email
Age: 3.2 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 935 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: 77% chance of becoming business critical, 3 accidental connections, 109 users.
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