Healthcare.gov crashing because backend doomed in the requirements stage

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Post by blurpin » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 2:43 PM UTC

Healthcare.gov crashing because backend doomed in the requirements stage
forbes.com

Re: Healthcare.gov crashing because backend doomed in the requirements stage

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Post by wheaties » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 3:31 PM UTC

I can't wait to see what the report of it didn't work actually says. It's quite possible that one of the services that the website hit couldn't handle the traffic which in turn caused a bottleneck in other systems.

Re: Healthcare.gov crashing because backend doomed in the requirements stage

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Post by mrharrison » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 3:35 PM UTC

I know the people who worked on this. This is not what happened. Just yet another propaganda piece by Forbes.

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Post by pfraze » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 3:41 PM UTC

mrharrison wrote: post #3

I know the people who worked on this. This is not what happened. Just yet another propaganda piece by Forbes.

Can you elaborate on what did happen?

Re: Healthcare.gov crashing because backend doomed in the requirements stage

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Post by gry » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 3:51 PM UTC

Thoughtback [https://thoughtback.com/] sent me a pertinent reminder this morning. No affiliation, just a great tool.

    Organizational metrics, which are not related to the code, can predict software
    failure-proneness with a precision and recall of 85 percent. This is a significantly
    higher precision than traditional metrics such as churn, complexity, or coverage 
    that have been used until now to predict failure-proneness. [1]

[1] The Influence of Organizational Structure On Software Quality: An Empirical Case Study

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=7053...

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Re: Healthcare.gov crashing because backend doomed in the requirements stage

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Post by briandear » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 3:56 PM UTC

mrharrison wrote: post #3

I know the people who worked on this. This is not what happened. Just yet another propaganda piece by Forbes.

Well something happened. You might want to tell those guys that 500 million lines of code is a bit ridiculous.

Re: Healthcare.gov crashing because backend doomed in the requirements stage

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Post by gesman » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 3:56 PM UTC

Could anyone share which platform / framework they used?

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Post by darkarmani » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 4:03 PM UTC

mrharrison wrote: post #3

I know the people who worked on this. This is not what happened. Just yet another propaganda piece by Forbes.

> the interface kept asking me to reenter the information for our dependents. Farther on in the process it doubled the number of our children (to 6!) Even though it listed our children’s names twice (identically) and even though these clones had identical SS numbers, the validation software was not smart enough to realize that the duplicate records were describing the same people!

This didn't happen? Are you suggesting he made this whole story up?

Re: Healthcare.gov crashing because backend doomed in the requirements stage

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Post by dodyg » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 4:07 PM UTC

briandear wrote: post #6

mrharrison wrote: post #3

I know the people who worked on this. This is not what happened. Just yet another propaganda piece by Forbes.

Well something happened. You might want to tell those guys that 500 million lines of code is a bit ridiculous.

You know what's cool? 1 billion lines of code.

Re: Healthcare.gov crashing because backend doomed in the requirements stage

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Post by powertower » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 4:12 PM UTC

> In my case, even the most expensive plan for our family in the State of Maine, where we live, is half the cost of what we are currently paying, exclusive of any subsidies.

The elephant in the room is that this is not the typical case - http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/09/25/double-...