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App #1254 Β· πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ the United States
Disaster score 178Common

The SAP Team built a demo environment that became production

Users1
Departments0
Criticality23%
Money involved€1,688/yr
β€œIt's only one container.”— Group Controller
Reason:
Honestly? Because Friday at 11:14 seemed like a reasonable time to deploy. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 411 days ago.
Built by:
Elena, a working student
Build time:
2 evenings
Built with:
Vue, for personal reasons
Database:
a Google Sheet with 69,374 rows and 75 tabs
Authentication:
the password is "Password1!" because it meets the policy
Deployment:
hosted on a server shared with 3 unrelated applications
Responsible:
Daniel, who is currently interviewing elsewhere
Documentation:
an architecture diagram with 5 arrows labelled API
Security situation:
the audit log also contains passwords
Future disaster:
It will become the source of truth in 15 months.

Accidentally connected to (3)

  • β†’ depends on an RDP session staying open
  • β†’ depends on 5 other temporary tools
  • β†’ sends 124,460 records through email

Age: 63 days Β· originally expected to last 7 days Β· 1 owner so far Β· last meaningful change 63 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, 23% chance of becoming business critical, alive 9x longer than intended.

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The SAP Team built a demo environment that became production