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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (543266)10/14/2013 6:31:25 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793559
 
If I'm reading the signs correctly, the website as designed is unfixable, certainly in the short-term. Adding more servers so it can handle the load will only reveal other bugs. This site was not designed correctly with end-to-end transactions in mind -- the nature of the unhandled errors makes that clear. In database design, a transaction is a series of operations which must all be performed together, or completely rolled back on the failure of any one operation. If you screw up the error-handling, failure leaves you with garbage in the database. The fact that they took the unheard-of decision to delete user passwords last week and require people to register again tells me that their database is full of garbage. This speaks to structural problems with the design of the system.

So, no, I don't think they can fix this system. If anybody has any sense, they are scrambling to assemble a Plan B system -- something far less ambitious that resembles ehealthinsurance.com in functionality.
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