[viraptor]

If the exercise was about performance, they could just point at google forms. They didn't. You said:

> The purpose was to show that it can be done better and cheaper than what IBM and the Australian Government came up with in FIVE years vs 2 students in 24ish hours.

Neither did ABS spend 5 years on the webform, nor the guys implemented everything that IBM and ABS did in 24h. They did something completely different. These guys got to skip all of the complexity of the solution and did the easy part in a weekend. You're also presenting the easy parts only. Even "add to queue => process later" is easy only if you want to show notification on a small site. Add all the assurances you need for the census and it's a multi-day task on its own.

Basically we're reliving the times of "why is Twitter going down all the time, I implemented Twitter in RoR in a weekend, look"