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App #456 · 🇦🇹 Austria
Disaster score 420Rare
Operations built yet another project tracker
Users551
Departments1
Criticality25%
Money involved€1,063/yr
“Nobody knows the URL.”— Head of Operations
- Reason:
- Mainly because someone said "GDPR" and the meeting went quiet. Forked from a tutorial at 17:46 and never cleaned up.
- Built by:
- Elena, a warehouse supervisor
- Build time:
- one weekend
- Built with:
- a Slack bot doing database writes
- Database:
- a SharePoint list with 131,351 items
- Authentication:
- CORS is set to * because the frontend was not working
- Deployment:
- running from a zip file called Customers_final_FINAL.xlsx
- Responsible:
- Sofia, who thought somebody else owned it
- Documentation:
- a PDF exported from PowerPoint
- Security situation:
- security is handled by being behind the office Wi-Fi
- Future disaster:
- It will fail five minutes before a board meeting.
Accidentally connected to (3)
- → depends on a SharePoint folder whose URL changed once already
- → runs only if the previous job finished before 06:00
- → retries failed jobs forever
Age: 102 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 102 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: 551 users, 3 accidental connections, 25% chance of becoming business critical.
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