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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by fractallyte on Sunday January 31, 2021 @12:49AM (#25976406)
Wait! If there was a sane set of APIs and data interchange formats that was standard across the whole system, development would be the simplest part.

It's because they have to shoehorn their solution into a morass of garbage software, that this turned into such a complex task.

The real answer is to dump ALL these huge contractors, and their 'solutions', and make something new and better, with proper engineers directing the process.

Imagine if Deloitte had been contracted to 'invent' the Internet...

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by NearAP on Sunday January 31, 2021 @01:14AM (#25976529)
>>> with engineers directing the process

This is usually not the solution. You have to understand the requirements/know your actual users. Engineers don’t necessarily do this well. They build with the latest tech but as you see in this example, the primary users are older people who can’t use latest tech

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by Aeolun on Sunday January 31, 2021 @07:45AM (#25978399)
> Engineers

As far as I’ve seen there’s people that build first, and ask questions later, and the reverse. Only the latter are engineers.

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by nitrogen on Sunday January 31, 2021 @03:41PM (#25982375)
Agreed. This is not a No True Scotsman -- understanding true requirements is a fundamental attribute of engineering. If you aren't doing that, whatever you are doing it isn't engineering.
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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by flarg on Sunday January 31, 2021 @01:23AM (#25976559)
Ha ha I know, but it isn't like that. APIs are always written as REST but the systems serving those APIs are not REST so everyone starts off building lots of GET APIs and then progress steams to a halt because it's tough to write loads of APIs for the many different types of write data flows in most systems.
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