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App #1461 Β· πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ the United States
Disaster score 288Common

The SAP Team built a rota planner

πŸ”₯ Business critical
Users29
Departments0
Criticality6%
Money involved€622,714/yr
β€œWe'll put it on the roadmap.”— Managing Director
Reason:
Allegedly because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "magic". Presented in a town hall as "innovation".
Built by:
Lukas, an intern
Build time:
a long Thursday
Built with:
Node.js with 847 packages and one route
Database:
a database view called new_FINAL_FINAL
Authentication:
"auth is on the roadmap" β€” has been for 209 days
Deployment:
deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Jens's laptop
Responsible:
"digital transformation"
Documentation:
comments in the code explaining what the code used to do
Security situation:
the refresh token never expires
Future disaster:
It will get a staging environment after production breaks.

Accidentally connected to (2)

  • β†’ depends on Outlook being open
  • β†’ parses PDFs using regex

Age: 12 days Β· originally expected to last 2 months Β· 1 owner so far Β· last meaningful change 12 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €623k per year, 2 accidental connections, 29 users.

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The SAP Team built a rota planner