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App #1115 Β· πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ the United Kingdom
Disaster score 956Mythic

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πŸ”₯ Business critical🧟 Builder has leftπŸ›οΈ Older than the departmentπŸ•ΈοΈ Load bearing
Users423
Departments0
Criticality47%
Money involved€2,593,238/yr
β€œClaude wrote most of it.”— Group Controller
Reason:
Mainly because the backlog contains 13,483 items and one priority. With a logo generated at 17:12.
Built by:
Priya, an analyst
Build time:
1 hours 12 minutes
Built with:
Redis, permanently
Database:
a vector database containing invoices for reasons
Authentication:
the encryption key is in the source code
Deployment:
behind a domain that still contains the word demo
Responsible:
Petra, because their email address is in the config
Documentation:
tribal knowledge, technically
Security situation:
the refresh token never expires
Future disaster:
It will become part of the company's "digital core" slide deck.

Accidentally connected to (6)

  • β†’ depends on a mapped network drive
  • β†’ has a cron job that triggers a webhook
  • β†’ depends on an RDP session staying open
  • β†’ depends on a folder called Final
  • β†’ reads from Salesforce
  • β†’ depends on a client certificate installed on one machine

⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.

Age: 7.9 years Β· originally expected to last 2 months Β· 2 owners so far Β· survived 2 reorganisations Β· last meaningful change 3 days ago Β· original builder left 1233 days ago

Rated mythic mostly because: €2.6m per year, 423 users, 6 accidental connections.

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