
How Go helped save HealthCare.gov ♻️
Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering
Healthcare.gov
The way government contracting works is you sort of work with government contractors. You don't really just go out and contract with like, I don't know, Google, right? Although Google does have some government work, but that's not how it would normally work. And yes, so for the 10 years or 20 years prior to healthcare.gov, the kinds of companies that were bidding on the healthcare.gov work had their main experience was with building more enterprise software stacks. That experience and expertise hadn't made its way over to government. Yeah. So with these people like used to building government websites where relatively low traffic and they usually just like manual forms, aren't they turned into web sites
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