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by chipotle_coyote 2265 days ago
> If you can't be bothered to take some basic steps for web site scaling (google page speed + a CDN) then the idea that you will carefully and successfully navigate to a 1 million tests per day moderate to high complexity medical test seems like it will be a stretch no?

No. :)

Seriously, these are orthogonal skills. I briefly worked for a communications satellite company that had a pretty godawful web site, but I doubt any of their prospective customers visited it and said, "Wow, if these people can't design a good looking web page, how can we trust them to put a satellite in orbit?"