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App #160 · 🇩🇪 Germany
Disaster score 584Legendary
Quality Assurance built a data export tool that exports everything
☠️ No known owner🧟 Builder has left
Users817
Departments0
Criticality16%
Money involved€128,017/yr
“AWS probably handles that.”— Jens, Quality Assurance
- Reason:
- Allegedly because the prototype has 234,764 production records. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".
- Built by:
- Jens, a key account manager
- Build time:
- an afternoon, mostly
- Built with:
- an AI agent with shell access
- Database:
- a SharePoint list that started as a temporary workaround
- Authentication:
- the encryption key is in the source code
- Deployment:
- running with 96% disk usage
- Responsible:
- a shared mailbox nobody reads
- Documentation:
- a PowerPoint with 70 slides
- Security situation:
- it stores passwords, hashed with nothing
- Future disaster:
- It will eventually process €240,000 per month.
Accidentally connected to (2)
- → shares one API key with 4 other tools
- → depends on a DNS entry somebody created manually
Age: 4.2 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 1251 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 817 users, €128k per year, 2 accidental connections.
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