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App #803 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 570Legendary
HR built a knowledge base with a search that does not search
🏛️ Older than the department🕸️ Load bearing
Users22
Departments0
Criticality12%
Money involved€41/yr
“Google probably handles that.”— Kevin, HR
- Reason:
- Allegedly because the automation sends an email asking someone to do it manually. With dark mode and no error handling.
- Built by:
- Kevin, a warehouse supervisor
- Build time:
- 12 minutes
- Built with:
- Python and a cron job on a laptop
- Database:
- Cosmos DB because somebody had Azure credits
- Authentication:
- the app is secure because it has a padlock icon
- Deployment:
- deployed through a GitHub Action that only Nadia understands
- Responsible:
- Sofia, informally
- Documentation:
- a Confluence page owned by Olivier, who left
- Security situation:
- IT was informed. IT has chosen peace.
- Future disaster:
- It will be migrated into the official system in 2033.
Accidentally connected to (6)
- → depends on a SharePoint folder whose URL changed once already
- → depends on a VPN connection that drops every afternoon
- → expects Anja to press the button first
- → depends on column C never being renamed
- → sends a CSV to Finance every morning
- → queries a database view nobody owns
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 5.5 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, alive 285x longer than intended, it is load bearing.
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