Bill Mill on working on the relaunch of "medicare plan compare"

Serving a billion web requests with boring code is a great write up on Bills work on the medicare plan compare tool and how innovation tokens are a gamble.

While the modular backend sounds like a success story, gRPC did not work out that well. But this shows that you can even get away with one or two less optimal - and let us be honest, just because it is not great does not mean it is bad - choices and still ship a successful product. If you do not overdue it and go all in on the latest Medium blogpost hype stack.

The ETL part amused me a bit. I know so many orgs being set on deploy huge clusters where a RDS instance and a cron job would be more than sufficient.