| Separate reply the HHS document (thanks for the link!). 400 bug fixes ~= 200 new bugs inserted? (Well, at least initially.) Page 5, hardware upgrades: "Deployed 12 large, dedicated servers; upgraded storage unit", with a resulting ">3x Database Throughput" Don't like reading that, although maybe it's not the critical path slowdown now. "upgraded storage unit" sounds like they're using a SAN, NAS, what have you, not the ideal recommended cluster architecture you described. I wonder if they've got enough IOPs.... Ah, reading this: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230333290... confirms what we've been hearing about it running on VMs on machines shared with other Medicare services, vs. the dedicated hardware now. System stability is bad at 95.1% exclusive of scheduled maintenance. Per this table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability#Percentage_c... that's a bit over 8 hours a week of unplanned downtime. Hmmm, maybe not a total disaster now. And the fix-it czar said his highest priority was (correctly) to stop sending garbage to insurance companies. We'll see ... especially since they evidently haven't started working on the really hard problem of paying the companies.... |