Re:How Go helped save HealthCare.gov
by rjzzleep on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @01:05AM
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That thing is actually mostly designed by HP and RedHat, had really weird design choices and wasn't cheap either.
In my opinion none of them were capable of designing a user facing application. It was also built as a client/server desktop application. Not really a good choice in my opinion. Sure there were no offline PWA at the time, but by contrast if your SAP backend dies all the local applications in a hospital e.g. writing the release report also dies.
Needless to say given it's immense complexity it was also impossible to use this monstrosity elsewhere.
But replacing it with Cerner in a $16bn project is just sad.
In my opinion none of them were capable of designing a user facing application. It was also built as a client/server desktop application. Not really a good choice in my opinion. Sure there were no offline PWA at the time, but by contrast if your SAP backend dies all the local applications in a hospital e.g. writing the release report also dies.
Needless to say given it's immense complexity it was also impossible to use this monstrosity elsewhere.
But replacing it with Cerner in a $16bn project is just sad.