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I spent a little over 3 years in USDS and it changed my life. If you are interested in working on high impact projects that affects hundreds of millions of Americans, I would stron…

Our team is very careful at choosing technology that is stable and well proven. In fact, it took a lot of debate for us to move from Rails static pages to React SPA. As for governm…

Nice! I was looking for it, and it predates git. Thank you!!

Yup, it would. Disabling the TS option was just a stopgap measure to make our deployments stable for the time being.

I am turning 34 coming this September. Not much of a kid anymore (even though I act like one). Not true. GS15 caps at 161k at DC area. It is a very respectable salary. http://www.f…

I actually did look at the TCP layer early on. However, I didn't pay close attention to the TS Val. From the packet dumps, it just appeared that the TCP window had stopped sliding.…

You are dead on. We do have a bug where we are not recovering the Oracle connectivity correctly. It is on our radar to address the issue. https://github.com/department-of-veterans-…

Thanks. I think the fact Cisco routers fail to route TCP packets bothers me even more. /you had one job

The government's current IT infrastructure crisis is not caused by any one administrations. The root cause goes back decades. Things like "Improving Veterans' lives so they don't h…

Author here. Completely agreed. My jaws dropped when I saw the INITIAL_JIFFIES. The kernel developers really saved our butt. I could not imagine debugging this problem if INITIAL_J…