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App #973 · 🇦🇺 Australia
Disaster score 570Legendary
The Night Shift built a tender response tracker
🕸️ Load bearing
Users1
Departments1
Criticality12%
Money involved€30,130/yr
“We'll clean it up after launch.”— Anja, The Night Shift
- Reason:
- Officially because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". Already exported 166,727 rows to somebody's laptop.
- Built by:
- Anja, a field technician
- Build time:
- one weekend
- Built with:
- Replit, because deployment looked like one button
- Database:
- an in-memory dictionary. Restarts are exciting.
- Authentication:
- the password hint contains the password
- Deployment:
- deployed by emailing Invoices_Q3_final_FINAL.xlsx to Thomas
- Responsible:
- Bastian, until somebody notices
- Documentation:
- an email with the subject "quick overview"
- Security situation:
- security is handled by being "internal only"
- Future disaster:
- It will send an invoice of €14,000 to the wrong country.
Accidentally connected to (6)
- → has a cron job that triggers a webhook
- → depends on a folder called Final
- → depends on a cron job on another server
- → retries failed jobs forever
- → expects Salesforce to finish first
- → expects Finance to upload the file first
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 4.7 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, alive 57x longer than intended, it is load bearing.
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