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App #1538 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 570Legendary
A Temporary Taskforce built yet another project tracker
🧟 Builder has left🕸️ Load bearing
Users121
Departments3
Criticality13%
Money involved€29/yr
“We have a diagram.”— Managing Director
- Reason:
- Because the test account belongs to Sarah from a working student. Renamed twice to avoid attention.
- Built by:
- Sofia, a working student
- Build time:
- an afternoon, mostly
- Built with:
- WordPress with eleven plugins and one critical shortcode
- Database:
- the legacy system's database through a read-only user with write permissions
- Authentication:
- the intern has production access
- Deployment:
- using a self-signed certificate everybody has accepted
- Responsible:
- Chen, who inherited it during a reorganisation
- Documentation:
- comments beginning with TODO 2023
- Security situation:
- it logs full customer records to the console
- Future disaster:
- It will become impossible to shut down because 6 other tools depend on it.
Accidentally connected to (6)
- → logs errors into a text file on the server
- → queries a database view nobody owns
- → depends on a folder called Final
- → scrapes the official system because it has no API
- → depends on a folder called Incoming
- → uses the same S3 bucket in test and production
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 3.7 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 5 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 801 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, 121 users, 3 departments depend on it.
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