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It's amazing how even technical minded folks don't forgive launch day bugs and initial traffic overload. That said, some of these bugs definitely should have
by ck2 13y ago
It's amazing how even technical minded folks don't forgive launch day bugs and initial traffic overload.
That said, some of these bugs definitely should have been easily spotted during beta testing.
But I too would like to see an itemization of $327 million.
- timr 13y agoInitial reports were that insurance.gov got 1M uniques before 8AM on launch day. One can imagine that California's exchange site was also slammed. I'm not going to argue that this project's budget wasn't bloated, but it's pretty naive to think that your average low-rent startup team could handle it any better. Doing tens of millions of uniques on launch day is a challenge for any team. Most commercial websites with that much traffic have technology budgets in the tens of millions of dollars, if not more.
- ck2 13y agoPlus given the politics around it, we don't know what devious behavior might have been going on against it either. Hopefully none, but you never know. Their stats may have been javascript based and not physical server hits.