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App #223 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 570Legendary
CEO Office built a 'temporary' inventory system
🏛️ Older than the department🕸️ Load bearing
Users76
Departments5
Criticality12%
Money involved€16,620/yr
“It has a padlock icon.”— Finance Business Partner
- Reason:
- Officially because IT said no, politely, in writing, on a Sunday. With 79 users and 32 feature requests.
- Built by:
- Sarah, a working student
- Build time:
- 1 hours 42 minutes
- Built with:
- Power Apps, licensed to one employee
- Database:
- a Raspberry Pi with 1 years of production data
- Authentication:
- the password hint contains the password
- Deployment:
- deployed Tuesday at 16:03
- Responsible:
- Ravi, who has never seen the source code
- Documentation:
- two architecture diagrams that disagree
- Security situation:
- the firewall rule is 0.0.0.0/0
- Future disaster:
- It will stop working after someone renames a column.
Accidentally connected to (6)
- → depends on a folder called Incoming
- → depends on a cron job on another server
- → depends on a server nobody is allowed to reboot
- → depends on a domain Jens owns privately
- → depends on a personal Gmail inbox
- → reads from a read replica with write permissions
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 8.6 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, 5 departments depend on it, alive 224x longer than intended.
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