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App #679 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 741Legendary
Procurement built a video game
🔥 Business critical🧟 Builder has left💀 Direct production access🕸️ Load bearing
Users280
Departments1
Criticality70%
Money involved€146,866/yr
“There are only like twelve users.”— Plant Manager
- Reason:
- Mainly because the integration works unless it is Friday. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.
- Built by:
- Petra, someone from Procurement
- Build time:
- 3 hours 52 minutes
- Built with:
- Svelte, which nobody else here writes
- Database:
- the production database, directly, with write access
- Authentication:
- the password policy requires one uppercase letter and optimism
- Deployment:
- running on port 5000 in production
- Responsible:
- the business
- Documentation:
- a Confluence page linking to another Confluence page
- Security situation:
- passwords are "encrypted" with Base64
- Future disaster:
- It will fail during the year-end close.
Accidentally connected to (6)
- → depends on Priya remembering to open Excel
- → uses Power Automate as the integration layer
- → depends on an Excel macro
- → depends on the worksheet being called Sheet1
- → depends on a folder called Final
- → polls the API every 5 seconds
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 3.4 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 390 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, 280 users, 70% chance of becoming business critical.
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