Posted on 10/04/2013 7:11:08 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversaw development of the site, declined to make any of its IT experts available for interviews. CGI Group Inc, the Canadian contractor that built HealthCare.gov, is "declining to comment at this time," said spokeswoman Linda Odorisio.
Five outside technology experts interviewed by Reuters, however, say they believe flaws in system architecture, not traffic alone, contributed to the problems.
For instance, when a user tries to create an account on HealthCare.gov it prompts the computer to load an unusually large amount of files and software, overwhelming the browser, experts said.
If they are right, then just bringing more servers online, as officials say they are doing, will not fix the site.
"Adding capacity sounds great until you realize that if you didn't design it right that won't help," said Bill Curtis, chief scientist at CAST, a software quality analysis firm, and director of the Consortium for IT Software Quality. "The architecture of the software may limit how much you can add on to it. I suspect they'll have to reconfigure a lot of it."
One possible cause of the problems is that hitting "apply" on HealthCare.gov causes 92 separate files, plug-ins and other mammoth swarms of data to stream between the user's computer and the servers powering the government website, said Matthew Hancock, an independent expert in website design. He was able to track the files being requested through a feature in the Firefox browser.
Of the 92 he found, 56 were JavaScript files, including plug-ins that make it easier for code to work on multiple browsers (such as Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer and Google Inc's Chrome) and let users upload files to HealthCare.gov.
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Who knows what kind of malware is contained in the java code.
The whole thing was designed to fail.
Just part of the plan.
Thanks for that.
To what end? If Republicans get control of both houses, then they can, if they are honest about free market solutions, get rid of it and let the markets right the wrong.
However, what scares me most is the push for amnesty and this happening at the same time. If all those illegals are made legal in anyway, I’m scared sh!tless that the single payer will finally come to America.
Probably the same guys that designed ORCA for Romney
"The architecture of the software may limit how much you can add on to it. I suspect they'll have to reconfigure a lot of it."
Which means this thing is going to be a boondoggle that dwarfs all other screw ups by the administration, to date.
There is no possible way that they'll have this fixed by Monday. Who knows how long it will take to re-write the code and reconfigure the whole system? Could be months.
In the meantime, Obie will have egg on his face that won't wash off, because even his people are going to have nightmares dealing with this.
I thought that term referred to the tall skinny person of dubious nationality currently occupying the people's house in DC, who says he doesn't smoke but does, lies about everything else too, and is married to a Mooch ..... right?
Funny!
I didn’t say that this was designed by democrats only.
I never wanted to believe that there were Republicans who would sell out this country as fast as a Democrat would.
I was wrong
Canadian? WTF?
LOL
They outsourced the job to Canaduh?
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
Oh that is just so rich, as are the fkrs who own that company.
WTH are they using frames or something?
What a joke..
We need to get a quote based on anonymously provided characteristics before signing in to sign up.
This is yet another pathetic LIB/DIM commie FAIL. Not only does the software fail...it was designed by gun-hating foreigners. Clown Prince nobama must be very, very pleased.
Also, since no one knew what the site looked like or how it operated, how many people ended up on hacker mirror sites typing in their data ?
Good one. Usually the problem is getting the info you want without creating an account.
The republicans need to all get on this website together and make these servers smoke.
Thanks, this is not being covered
I’d bet serious money this POS was never load tested. If they had done real world load testing they would have easily seen where the bottle necks were.
Maybe they were scared to load test. Kinda like being afraid to rip off the band-aid ‘cause you know it’s gonna hurt.
Speaking of band-aids...
How in the h-e- double hockey sticks did this app make it through acceptance testing??
I bet you CGI is looking, as we speak, for people that know a thing or two about performance testing.
Call IBM.
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