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This article on the Healthcare.gov authors (Development Seed) from back in June makes me so mad I could spit. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/201
by swamp40 13y ago
This article on the Healthcare.gov authors (Development Seed) from back in June makes me so mad I could spit.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/healthcaregov-code-developed-by-the-people-and-for-the-people-released-back-to-the-people/277295/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/health...
Especially these paragraphs:
"When we worked with the World Bank, they chose a plan from Rackspace for 16 servers," said Gundersen. "That added tens of thousands of dollars, with a huge hosting bill every month."
HHS had similar strategic plans for the new site, at least at first. "They were planning 32 servers, between staging, production and disaster recovery, with application servers for different environments," said Cole. "You're just talking about content. There just needs to be one server. We're going to have two, with one for backup. That's a deduction of 30 servers."