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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 (m
by 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 agoGoogle 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.