[zeckalpha]

It's not fully in house. The idea is to centralize management of services (both in-house and external) for budgeting reasons, since MAX is part of GSA which is part of the OMB (Office of Management and Budget).

[lefler]

MAX.gov was kind enough to run us a proxy in order to support https, and that proxy had a bad day under load. Described more here https://github.com/18F/web-design-standards/issues/733

Btw, GSA and OMB aren't connected the way you describe. They just happen to be the respective parent agencies of 18F and USDS-HQ. Here's a tree.

  POTUS
  ├── GSA
  │   └── 18F
  └── OMB
      ├── USDS-HQ
      └── MAX

[Animats]

GSA, the General Services Administration, is the purchasing, construction, and building operations unit of the US Government. They're a huge operation, with a $20 billion budget and operations all over the US. The Office of Management and Budget is a White House staff unit with about 500 employees, most in an office building next to the White House.

GSA has forklifts. OMB has clout.

[zeckalpha]

Thanks!