CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs

Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by raverbashing on Sunday January 31, 2021 @02:51AM (#25976991)

> 'wrangling data for legacy systems' does not cost that much, it's still a small piece of the pie

Are you sure? Because I think it might possibly involve:

- interfacing with an old COBOL system

- interfacing with an old DB2/ORACLE/(legacy database) with a "very creative" Schema and even more creative indexes (or maybe none - who knows). More bonus points if it's not even ASCII encoded

- Production system runs on a VM serving an old classic ASP or PHP app

- Data can be exported through an XML from Hell but that takes 2h to export.

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by JimBlizz on Sunday January 31, 2021 @04:54AM (#25977591)

You forgot the step where you even need to identify that these things already exist, and whats in them.

Are there governance requirements around the data in them? I'm not familiar with US law, but we're talking about PII in this example so what legal and privacy hoops need jumping to copy the data?

Thats before we get to "Can an person with this specific learning disability, or a person who doesn't have a fixed address navigate through this form?"

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by nitrogen on Sunday January 31, 2021 @03:54PM (#25982478)

I've done some of those, 90% by myself, for a modern ecommerce site for a 150-year-old company on a 30-year-old Oracle DB.

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