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>>it’s unlikely that a more modern enterprise system would either. sorry but that is just false. a Properly designed modern system would handle horizontal sca
by syshum 7y ago
>>it’s unlikely that a more modern enterprise system would either.
sorry but that is just false. a Properly designed modern system would handle horizontal scaling just fine.
Granted the government would likely pay a billion dollars to have a screwed up system developed by on of the "big guys" that has the same problems as they current system, most likely because it would be designed by committee and not by engineers.
However to say that modern systems could not handle this kind of problem is just wrong. There are all kinds of ways to handle a sudden increase in load.
- Spooky23 7y agoMany things are possible. But a core premise of government procurement is that you award to the cheapest vendor that minimally meets the mandatory requirements. Nobody would deliver a system that would just work with a claim load exponentially higher than the Great Depression. If New Jersey landed a replacement UI system in 2010, it would be some sort of J2EE monstrosity on some outdated Websphere/JBoss/BEA/Oracle platform probably still dependent on some mainframe component. The desperation for COBOL people is almost certainly because the (very complex) business rules are embedded in code that has been evolving for decades. Just changing anything is hard because it is a security nightmare (touches tax data, social security, dmv, and more) and regulated by all sorts of security/compliance frameworks that are difficult to implement and sometimes conflicting!
- syshum 7y agoYes I am well aware of how inefficient and ineffective government is, that is one of the primary reasons I remain a libertarian... As the saying goes, Government: if you think you have problems just wait until you see our solutions