A Billion User Load Test on Healthcare.gov

kasparsklavins wrote: post #2

> The current observed peak load for HealthCare.gov’s Open Enrollment in 2016 was on Dec 14 2016 Dec 14? Did I miss something?

Probably Dec 14 2015 for the 2016 enrollment year

Re: A Billion User Load Test on Healthcare.gov

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Post by jakupovic » Fri, Dec 02, 2016, 6:17 PM UTC

Next thing to look at is why only 2k/sec users can be added to the DB.

Re: A Billion User Load Test on Healthcare.gov

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Post by coldcode » Fri, Dec 02, 2016, 6:18 PM UTC

I wonder if this healthcare.gov will exist a year from now. It is nice to see how far it has come in 2 years.

Re: A Billion User Load Test on Healthcare.gov

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Post by sulam » Fri, Dec 02, 2016, 6:20 PM UTC

8K transactions / second is hardly extreme load. It's good they can support it, and I doubt they need more, but many, many sites handle more load than that.

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Post by notyourwork » Fri, Dec 02, 2016, 6:23 PM UTC

sulam wrote: post #7

8K transactions / second is hardly extreme load. It's good they can support it, and I doubt they need more, but many, many sites handle more load than that.

Agreed, it is good they can support it. However, is 8k TPS really a big deal? The team I work with handles 1M TPS.

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Post by ProAm » Fri, Dec 02, 2016, 6:32 PM UTC

notyourwork wrote: post #8

sulam wrote: post #7

8K transactions / second is hardly extreme load. It's good they can support it, and I doubt they need more, but many, many sites handle more load than that.

Agreed, it is good they can support it. However, is 8k TPS really a big deal? The team I work with handles 1M TPS.

it's the government, we're thrilled they can do anything.

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Post by swalsh » Fri, Dec 02, 2016, 6:42 PM UTC

notyourwork wrote: post #8

sulam wrote: post #7

8K transactions / second is hardly extreme load. It's good they can support it, and I doubt they need more, but many, many sites handle more load than that.

Agreed, it is good they can support it. However, is 8k TPS really a big deal? The team I work with handles 1M TPS.

To be fair, a "transaction" here is probably a lot more complex than people give credit. Healthcare is a very sophisticated beast... it's a huge many to many problem, and though people keep trying to "standardize" details always prevail.