“I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to design large parts of a relaunch of medicare plan compare, the US government site through which hundreds of thousands of medicare recipients purchase their health care plans each year… I especially want to share this story because I want to show that quality software can get written under government constraints. It can! And if we all start believing that it can, we're more likely to produce it.” @llimllib https://notes.billmill.org/blog/2024/06/Serving_a_billion_web_requests_with_boring_code.html // a deep dive