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App #657 · 🇳🇱 the Netherlands
Disaster score 570Legendary
Facilities built an NPS survey with one respondent
🧟 Builder has left🕸️ Load bearing
Users1
Departments3
Criticality13%
Money involvedunknown
“The code is self-documenting.”— Ravi, Facilities
- Reason:
- Mainly because the printer is somehow involved. Renamed twice to avoid attention.
- Built by:
- Ravi, a controller
- Build time:
- a long Thursday
- Built with:
- Streamlit
- Database:
- a column called do_not_use that is required
- Authentication:
- the service account has global admin, just in case
- Deployment:
- in a Docker container nobody can rebuild
- Responsible:
- Chen, who inherited it from Ravi by accident
- Documentation:
- a README describing a version that no longer exists
- Security situation:
- MFA was disabled after somebody lost their phone
- Future disaster:
- It will stop working when Tobias leaves the company.
Accidentally connected to (6)
- → uses Zapier as the message bus
- → depends on a file called latest.csv
- → scrapes another internal app
- → scrapes another tool that itself scrapes SAP
- → uses Slack as a queue
- → polls a CSV file for changes
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 2.3 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 6 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 300 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, 3 departments depend on it, alive 39x longer than intended.
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