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What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov
An anonymous reader writes "Soured by his attempt to acquire a quote from healthcare.gov, James Turner compiled a short list of things developers can learn from the experience: 'The first highly visible component of the Affordable Health Care Act launched this week, in the form of the healthcare.gov site. Theoretically, it allows citizens, who live in any of the states that have chosen not to implement their own portal, to get quotes and sign up for coverage. I say theoretically because I've been trying to get a quote out of it since it launched on Tuesday, and I'm still trying. Every time I think I've gotten past the last glitch, a new one shows up further down the line. While it's easy to write it off as yet another example of how the government (under any administration) seems to be incapable of delivering large software projects, there are some specific lessons that developers can take away. 1) Load testing is your friend.'"
Let's have our great media investigate if this is poor planning...or good planning if once the initial load gets through then they didn't overspend on equipment they don't need.
Or if there is a secret effort by the people who want this to fail to hire botnets and hackers to DDOS it... I wouldn't put it past them.
A lot of developers don't work on bunk ass ghetto web shit
I wouldn't believe breitbart.com if it told me that the sky was blue.