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App #1510 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 660Legendary
HR built a certification expiry alerter
🔥 Business critical
Users271
Departments1
Criticality22%
Money involved€1,959,981/yr
“We'll add SSO later.”— HR Generalist
- Reason:
- Because the workaround has its own workaround. With dark mode and no error handling.
- Built by:
- Sofia, a warehouse supervisor
- Build time:
- one weekend
- Built with:
- a no-code builder on someone's personal account
- Database:
- an API endpoint called /getAllData
- Authentication:
- CORS is set to * because the frontend was not working
- Deployment:
- deployed through Jenkins, which has been "temporary" for 3 years
- Responsible:
- whoever answers the support email
- Documentation:
- a photographed whiteboard from a workshop
- Security situation:
- the cookie banner is the security feature
- Future disaster:
- It will become part of the company's "digital core" slide deck.
Accidentally connected to (4)
- → depends on an Excel macro
- → depends on Java 8 for reasons nobody remembers
- → uses Redis as permanent storage
- → depends on dates staying in DD/MM/YYYY
Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: €2.0m per year, 271 users, 4 accidental connections.
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