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App #514 Β· πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ the United States
Disaster score 231Common

Sales built a supplier scorecard

☠️ No known owner🧟 Builder has left
Users1
Departments0
Criticality6%
Money involved€39,482/yr
β€œNobody would want this data.”— Finance Business Partner
Reason:
Mainly because the bug is now documented behaviour. With 2 tests, all skipped.
Built by:
Bastian, someone from Procurement
Build time:
9 evenings
Built with:
a Slack bot doing database writes
Database:
a Git repository with one JSON file per customer
Authentication:
the audit log records "something changed"
Deployment:
running on port 3000 in production
Responsible:
an agency acquired by another agency
Documentation:
a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted
Security situation:
the tenant ID comes directly from the query string
Future disaster:
It will cause Security to ask "what application?".

Accidentally connected to (2)

  • β†’ writes directly to the production database
  • β†’ depends on a SaaS trial ending soon

Age: 40 days Β· originally expected to last 7 days Β· 2 owners so far Β· last meaningful change 40 days ago Β· original builder left 41 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 accidental connections, nobody owns it, €39k per year.

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