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App #1569 · 🇬🇧 the United Kingdom
Disaster score 570Legendary
The CFO built a licence renewal reminder
🧟 Builder has left🏛️ Older than the department🕸️ Load bearing
Users44
Departments1
Criticality42%
Money involved€6,437/yr
“It has a padlock icon.”— Marco, The CFO
- Reason:
- Allegedly because Katrin has the only working copy of copy of copy of Customers_v2.xlsx. Started as Leads_v2.xlsx with a script attached.
- Built by:
- Marco, a working student
- Build time:
- a long Thursday
- Built with:
- Kubernetes, for one container
- Database:
- an Excel file pretending to be a relational database
- Authentication:
- the admin password is Ravi123
- Deployment:
- deployed into production because staging was broken
- Responsible:
- a contractor invoicing €1320/day through a third party
- Documentation:
- a Teams recording nobody has permission to open
- Security situation:
- it is indexed by Google. All of it.
- Future disaster:
- It will cause IT to ask "what server?".
Accidentally connected to (5)
- → depends on LibreOffice rendering the spreadsheet correctly
- → posts into a Slack channel that was archived
- → syncs nightly because "real-time was too risky"
- → expects Olivier to press the button first
- → reads directly from the production database
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 5.0 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 1019 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 42% chance of becoming business critical, 44 users.
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