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App #504 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 570Legendary
Facility Services built an app only Kevin knows exists
💀 Direct production access🕸️ Load bearing
Users3
Departments0
Criticality12%
Money involved€18,859/yr
“The office Wi-Fi is secure.”— Tobias, Facility Services
- Reason:
- Because the last 10% is authentication, billing and everything else. Forked from a tutorial at 16:35 and never cleaned up.
- Built by:
- Tobias, a team lead
- Build time:
- one weekend
- Built with:
- React, Vite and enthusiasm
- Database:
- dates stored as text in 6 different formats
- Authentication:
- SSO, but only for Lukas
- Deployment:
- deployed by dragging files into an FTP client
- Responsible:
- Ravi, who is currently interviewing elsewhere
- Documentation:
- an email with the subject "quick overview"
- Security situation:
- it emails a CSV of everything at 09:47, nightly
- Future disaster:
- It will stop working after someone renames a column.
Accidentally connected to (6)
- → pushes 51,938 rows into the data warehouse
- → scrapes another tool that itself scrapes SAP
- → uses Google Sheets as an event log
- → depends on an application scheduled for decommissioning
- → calls an internal API using the global admin token
- → depends on an Access database
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 230 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, direct production access, it is load bearing.
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