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App #838 · 🇦🇺 Australia
Disaster score 570Legendary
The Management Assistant built Excel, but in React
🕸️ Load bearing
Users10
Departments0
Criticality12%
Money involvedunknown
“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Tobias, The Management Assistant
- Reason:
- Because Daniel from The Management Assistant is on holiday until April. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.
- Built by:
- Tobias, a warehouse supervisor
- Build time:
- a long Thursday
- Built with:
- a Slack bot doing database writes
- Database:
- an email inbox used as the database
- Authentication:
- the security model is a locked office door
- Deployment:
- behind a domain registered for €7 during a workshop
- Responsible:
- Tobias, a warehouse supervisor. Only Tobias.
- Documentation:
- comments that say "do not change this"
- Security situation:
- the session never expires
- Future disaster:
- It will become business critical in 14 months.
Accidentally connected to (6)
- → depends on a production secret copied from another project
- → parses PDFs using regex
- → posts failures into a Slack channel nobody watches
- → syncs with copy of copy of Headcount.xlsm on a shared drive
- → depends on Lukas's personal Google Drive
- → uses OneDrive as a database backup
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 39 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 39 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, it is load bearing, 10 users.
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