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What platforms is it hosted on? Did that have anything to do with who is helping out?

• Zancarius 13y ago
  In light of recent events, I do have to wonder what their motive is to lend assistance. Kickbacks? Future contracts? A promise not to embarrass their corporate officers with information snagged by the NSA?
  • waterlesscloud 13y ago
    My guess is checks. Very large checks.
• VladRussian2 13y ago
  i'd speculate that Google is brought in because it is good PR, and Oracle, well, it sounds like healthcare.gov backend is running something like 4-6 node RAC (most probably Exadata). Good luck to them as they would really need it :)
  • nostrademons 13y ago
    Google SREs have a lot of experience managing very complex systems with very little downtime. There're certain architectural patterns and practices you can use if you want to keep a large distributed website highly-available. Oracle I'd imagine is there for expertise with specific technologies. Also, it's worth remembering that these are specific engineers who volunteered, and not their employers. So a lot is really who was willing to do it.