2^ℵ₀ Chaotic Debt

SWE-3001 2^ℵ₀

Unbounded Social Graph Queries

Implementing social relationships using pure relational joins without considering the exponential growth of multi-hop queries. Simple adjacency list t...

3 examples

SWE-3003 2^ℵ₀

Insufficient Permission Granularity in Schema

Schema designs that lack proper permission granularity, allowing broad access to data through single permission grants. This includes friend-of-friend...

3 examples

SWE-5001 2^ℵ₀

API Rate Limiting and Enumeration Weakness

APIs that lack proper rate limiting, use predictable identifiers (sequential IDs), and don't verify authorization for each request. This allows attack...

3 examples

SWE-6001 2^ℵ₀

Spreadsheet-as-Database Anti-pattern

Using spreadsheet applications (Excel, Google Sheets, etc.) as production databases for critical data processing. This includes hitting row/column lim...

4 examples

SWE-6002 2^ℵ₀

Legacy System Brittleness

Legacy systems (often decades old) that cannot adapt to modern demands, lacking elasticity, scalability, or ability to handle unexpected load patterns...

4 examples