It’s an embarrassment for the administration. Well, yeah. What’s surprising, though, is who is saying it:
“An embarrassment for the administration,” Blitzer stated. “Hopefully, they’ll get all those glitches out of the way by Monday, if possible. They’ve only had three years to get ready for this roll out.”
When you’ve lost Wolf Blitzer…
Perhaps someone should introduce the concept of software engineering to these folks.
That’s not even the most embarrassing part, that falls to the ungodly cost of these sites. The government spent a good fraction of a billion dollars on this work.
I have personal experience as a contractor on a comparable govt website that was knowingly rolled out allowing only 1000 concurrent users, though the known daily users was many times that amount. And that was repeatedly pointed out to the customer (FedGov) a year before release. It’s the clueless agency people at Baltimore and DC who direct contractors to build stuff this way.
But it’s fine if we literally place our lives in their hands, by allowing them to run our health care system. What could go wrong?
I saw a report and confirmed this morning that the Amber Alert website is shut down due to the CR standoff. http://www.amberalert.gov/
Does no one at the Justice Department have sufficient judgment to say “we need to keep this site operational” in a time like this?