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Healthcare.gov was a site that failed and suffered due to scaling issues. However, it was an anomaly because unlike a product someone this article is intended

Healthcare.gov was a site that failed and suffered due to scaling issues. However, it was an anomaly because unlike a product someone this article is intended towards would be building, that site had an immediate audience of millions of users from the get go. Also, the fact that it took a few weeks to be rewritten to handle the load at which point it became extremely successful, strengthens the original article's point. By the time scalability becomes a problem, you will have enough resources to tackle the scalability problem.

user5994461 10y ago
This is not an anomaly. It's the norm for all government projects, and most projects started in established companies that already have millions of users. To be working in these domains, the "doesn't need to scale" mentality" is very inappropriate and I find it to be doing a lot of damages. The guys at healthcare handled most the scaling problems, accounting for the means at their disposal and the time frame they had, judging by what was published in the news. That it took a few weeks to smooth showed that they handled scaling beforehand. A launch from 10 users to 10 million is always a bit bumpy for the initial weeks.