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App #1171 Β· πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Canada
Disaster score 570Legendary

The Reporting Team built a wellbeing survey dashboard

πŸ•ΈοΈ Load bearing
Users1
Departments3
Criticality12%
Money involved€927/yr
β€œNobody would want this data.”— Head of Operations
Reason:
Allegedly because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "magic". With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.
Built by:
Jens, a key account manager
Build time:
4 evenings
Built with:
Zapier being used as middleware
Database:
a NAS called prod-backup purchased from Amazon
Authentication:
no login. It is on the intranet, so it is fine.
Deployment:
running with 80% memory usage and "seems fine"
Responsible:
Sofia, who only knows the database
Documentation:
a file called how-it-works-v2-final-final.docx
Security situation:
the admin page is protected by not linking to it
Future disaster:
It will fail exactly when Olivier is on holiday.

Accidentally connected to (5)

  • β†’ depends on a batch file called run-me.bat
  • β†’ depends on a Teams channel used as a queue
  • β†’ depends on a server nobody is allowed to reboot
  • β†’ downloads a CSV from SAP at 03:00
  • β†’ depends on somebody forwarding an email

⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.

Age: 24 days Β· originally expected to last 14 days Β· 1 owner so far Β· last meaningful change 24 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 3 departments depend on it, it is load bearing.

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The Reporting Team built a wellbeing survey dashboard