What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov 267
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.'"
What can they learn (Score:0, Funny)
Bribing the procurement officer gets you juicy gov tenders ... yes muthafuka! dats true!
"Launched" is such an optimistic word... (Score:5, Funny)
"Launch" suggests that it actually, you know, worked.
When a quarter million people hit a game company's servers and only half of them get to play, it's a disaster of unrivaled proportions.
When millions of people hit billions of dollars in government investment and a few thousand of them actually get the site to work at all, it's a "learning experience."
Re:The basic problem (Score:4, Funny)
Because they are the only ones who actually have successfully created healthcare systems on that scale, specifically medicare, medicaid, and the VA system.
Re:What can they learn (Score:4, Funny)
I just successfully logged in. to a blank page.