Serving a billion web requests with boring code

Serving a billion web requests with boring code

Bill Mill provides a deep retrospective from his work helping build a relaunch of the medicare.gov/plan-compare site.

It's a fascinating case study of the choose boring technology mantra put into action. The "boring" choices here were PostgreSQL, Go and React, all three of which are so widely used and understood at this point that you're very unlikely to stumble into surprises with them.

Key goals for the site were accessibility, in terms …

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