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minus-squarerandon31415@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoObamacare website was launched at the beginning of the open enrollment window, and that was just a fraction of the us population. They now have 10 months to strategize how not to crash come April when every tax payer in the US trys to use this.
minus-squaremosiacmango@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoThat was back in 2013, and frankly web dev has gotten a lot easier and a lot more robust at scaling since then. They also learned from that catastrophic deployment, which is why they developed the USDS, the US digital services office, which pulls people in from startup and tech culture to guide these projects with modern practices for the executive branch. The above is rolling out this exact service.
Obamacare website was launched at the beginning of the open enrollment window, and that was just a fraction of the us population. They now have 10 months to strategize how not to crash come April when every tax payer in the US trys to use this.
That was back in 2013, and frankly web dev has gotten a lot easier and a lot more robust at scaling since then.
They also learned from that catastrophic deployment, which is why they developed the USDS, the US digital services office, which pulls people in from startup and tech culture to guide these projects with modern practices for the executive branch.
The above is rolling out this exact service.