Obama Care Part II

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Originally Posted by firstdown

Your going to compare a 650 billion dollar investment into this site to a video game? the ACA is messing around with about 20% of our nations anual spend and you think Obama worried about the cost of the site. Tells alot about this president.

FD,

It's a fairly accurate analogy. The scope is not exactly the same, but the technical challenges remain the same. Both will have traffic that is significantly front loaded but will quickly dissipate to an level that is easy to manage. If we had spent an extra 500,000 - 2,000,000 on the necessary hardware to support the types of loads its seeing, you'd be complaining about that. I'm not saying the rollout was perfect, I'm also saying that no technical implementation will be perfect. Part of my job is to work new tools into a fairly complex environment. Every piece we add has challenges you prepare for, and challenges you do not foresee, regardless of the planning put into place. To take something like a website up to the Presidential level is simply ridiculous. You can't point a finger directly at him for screwing it up. I don't expect my President to understand highly technical situations, I do expect people closer to the situation to understand, and I believe they did a fairly decent job given the constraints they were under.

** I do want to make it clear, I have no connections to this website or its development. That's not my area, but I was interested in what happened and why.