In October, when HealthCare.gov was online, it turned into a lump of rubbish.

In a telephone interview, Jeff Zianze, director of the former Office of Management and Budget, who was responsible for correcting the health care website, told reporters, "HealthCare.gov on December 1 and October 1 are worlds apart." We have expanded the system's access bandwidth. There are now 4 entrances, not one or two. ”

A progress report, released on the morning of 1st, also reflects a sense of urgency as the date approaches:

The newly installed technology monitoring tool can continuously analyze the performance of the website in real time. With this new data and management structure, the team can quickly react to any event and better understand the cause of the problem.

The report shows that the site is running at 90% uptime, the response time is reduced to 1 seconds, and the error rate for timeouts and failures drops to 1% (more than 6% a few weeks ago). Now the site can handle 800,000 users per day, or 50,000 users at the same time, but the peak time request is still higher than this target, so the system notifies the user that the site is busy and notifies them of the duration of the site's use.

Of course, the White House will say that they did not meet the December 1 target, and we will have to wait a few weeks to see how it works. Even if the site is really improving, the Affordable Care Act has a long way to go. But the HealthCare.gov programmer team can now breathe a relief.