{"id":11804,"date":"2013-11-25T11:52:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T17:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11804"},"modified":"2013-11-25T11:52:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T17:52:53","slug":"tension-and-flaws-before-health-website-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11804","title":{"rendered":"Tension and Flaws Before Health Website Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Thanks to a huge effort to fix the most obvious weaknesses and the appointment at last of a single contractor, QSSI, to oversee the work, the website now crashes much less frequently, officials said. That is a major improvement from a month ago, when it was <strong>up only 42 percent of the time and 10-hour failures were common<\/strong>. Yet an enormous amount of work remains to be done, all sides agree.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/23\/us\/politics\/tension-and-woes-before-health-website-crash.html?_r=0\">Tension and Flaws Before Health Website Crash &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Systems like this should require 5 9s availability from the beginning.\u00a0 This means that the system should be operationally up 99.999% of the time.\u00a0 This allows for around 5.7 minutes downtime per year.\u00a0 I suspect companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google meet this standard for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High_availability\">high availability<\/a>.\u00a0 There are all kinds of methods and tricks to achieve this that have been learned over the past century in telecommunication systems.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the last week of September, the disastrous results of the project\u2019s inept management and execution were becoming fully apparent. The agency pressed CGI to explain why a performance test showed that the site could not handle more than 500 simultaneous users. The response once again exhibited the blame-shifting that had plagued the project for months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a huge effort to fix the most obvious weaknesses and the appointment at last of a single contractor, QSSI, to oversee the work, the website now crashes much less frequently, officials said. That is a major improvement from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11804\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[62,44],"class_list":["post-11804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-high-availability","tag-web-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11808,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11804\/revisions\/11808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}