[wdr1]

> It should be noted that healthcare.gov might be the highest traffic website launch in the history of the internet. With millions of visitors on day one, I certainly can't think of one that would even compare.

I can think of two that I've worked on personally:

- Yahoo!'s tribute site for the first anniversary of 9/11 - Ticketing for the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Yes, in both cases, the companies had experience & infrastructure for building high-scale website, but that should have been a requirement for the entities building healthcare.gov as well.

In both cases I've cited there were a lot of significant changes to the technical stack (e.g., it was first time we used PHP for a large scale project at Yahoo!).

TL;DR: This isn't really excusable.