I've recently read a description of the Affordable Care Act system
debacle that claims not enough attention was paid to data-driving the
system of systems. To which I asked, "You mean it was object-oriented
to death?" to which the reply was "Pretty much."
Not being familiar with the architecture chosen or the problems with
the multitude of backend systems or how much authority the contractors
had to enforce ICDs over the multiple systems, it seems to me that
unless they were data-driving it, they were more than likely doomed to
fail.
I grant the story of that particular debacle likely has many more
twists and turns, but a decade or so after the promise that the web
offered "frictionless commerce" was made, when we see a debacle of
this scope, it's certainly worth knowing why it happened. If the
claim made as stated above is true, then the argument presented in the
Subject line is kaboshed by a compelling existence proof.
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