The code is bad, from all accounts. Making it cloudy or servicey doesn't really help, except to throw hardware at it - and there may be issues which hardware cannot help.
Still, the solution to scalability is likely not cloud. For $400m, they can easily afford all the hosting they need to scale. On the other hand, blithely dumping millions of health records into the cloud is probably something to be avoided, especially when those building the site seem as clueless as the ones that developed healthcare.gov.
If you really wanted to scale on the cheap, they could always have approached the NSA about hosting facilities. The NSA has plenty of computing resources and running the fu
*aaS is not the Obamacare problem (Score:2)
The code is bad, from all accounts. Making it cloudy or servicey doesn't really help, except to throw hardware at it - and there may be issues which hardware cannot help.
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Still, the solution to scalability is likely not cloud. For $400m, they can easily afford all the hosting they need to scale. On the other hand, blithely dumping millions of health records into the cloud is probably something to be avoided, especially when those building the site seem as clueless as the ones that developed healthcare.gov.
If you really wanted to scale on the cheap, they could always have approached the NSA about hosting facilities. The NSA has plenty of computing resources and running the fu