Tag Archive 'Crash'

Oct 07 2013

Why Was Obamacare (Now ObamaCrash) Website Outsourced To Overseas Company?

One thing is clear, the #ObamaCare roll out has turned into the #ObamaCrash. From what I am reading on the tech side of things (and computer systems for NASA and DoD are my business area) the problems seem to be a case of hiring the wrong company for the job. In this WSJ article, the […]

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Nov 16 2012

The Disaster That Was GOP GOTV On Election Day

Major Update: More pathetic details here: As the Web traffic from volunteers attempting to connect to Orca mounted, the system crashed repeatedly because of bandwidth constraints. At one point the network connection to the campaign’s data center went down—apparently because the ISP shut it off. “They told us Comcast thought it was a denial of […]

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