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I suspect that many of you are familiar with the term "hard coding a value" whereby the age of an individual or their location is written into the condition (or action) of a business rule (in this case) as shown below:
if customer.age > 21 and customer.city == 'denver'
then ...
Such coding practices are perfectly expectable provided that the conditional values, age and city, never change. They become entirely unacceptable if a need for different values could be anticipated. A classic example of where this practice occurred that caused considerable heartache in the IT industry was the Y2K issue where dates were updated using only the last 2 digits of a four digit number because the first 2 digits were hard-coded to 19 i.e. 1998, 1999. All was well provided that the date did not advance to a time beyond the 1900’s since no one could be certain of what would happen when the millennia arrived (2000). A considerably amount of work (albeit boring) and money, approximately $200 billion, went into revising systems by way of software rewrites and computer chip replacements in order to thwart any detrimental outcomes. It is obvious how a simple change or an assumption can have sweeping consequences.
You may wonder what Y2K has to do with Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS). Well, what if we considered rules themselves to be hard-coded. If we were to write 100s of rules in Java, .NET or whatever language that only worked for a given scenario or assumption, would that not constitute hard-coded logic? By hard-coded, we obviously mean compiled. For example, if a credit card company has a variety of bonus campaigns, each with their own unique list of rules that may change within a week’s time, what would be the most effective way of writing software to deal with these responsibilities?
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I’ve been a technical recruiter for several years, let’s just say a long time. I’ll never forget how my first deal went bad and the lesson I learned from that experience. I was new to recruiting but had been a very good sales person in my previous position. I was about to place my first contractor on an assignment. I thought everything was fine. I nurtured and guided my candidate through the interview process with constant communication throughout. The candidate was very responsive throughout the process. From my initial contact with him, to the phone interview all went well and now he was completing his onsite interview with the hiring manager.
Shortly thereafter, I received the call from the hiring manager that my candidate was the chosen one for the contract position, I was thrilled. All my hard work had paid off. I was going to be a success at this new game! The entire office was thrilled for me, including my co-workers and my bosses. I made a good win-win deal. It was good pay for my candidate and a good margin for my recruiting firm. Everyone was happy.
I left a voicemail message for my candidate so I could deliver the good news. He had agreed to call me immediately after the interview so I could get his assessment of how well it went. Although, I heard from the hiring manager, there was no word from him. While waiting for his call back, I received a call from a Mercedes dealership to verify his employment for a car he was trying to lease. Technically he wasn’t working for us as he had not signed the contract yet…. nor, had he discussed this topic with me. I told the Mercedes office that I would get back to them. Still not having heard back from the candidate, I left him another message and mentioned the call I just received. Eventually he called back. He wanted more money.
I told him that would be impossible as he and I had previously agreed on his hourly rate and it was fine with him. I asked him what had changed since that agreement. He said he made had made much more money in doing the same thing when he lived in California. I reminded him this is a less costly marketplace than where he was living in California. I told him if he signed the deal I would be able to call the car dealership back and confirm that he was employed with us. He agreed to sign the deal.
Millions of people experienced the frustration and failures of the Obamacare website when it first launched. Because the code for the back end is not open source, the exact technicalities of the initial failings are tricky to determine. Many curious programmers and web designers have had time to examine the open source coding on the front end, however, leading to reasonable conclusions about the nature of the overall difficulties.
Lack of End to End Collaboration
The website was developed with multiple contractors for the front-end and back-end functions. The site also needed to be integrated with insurance companies, IRS servers, Homeland Security servers, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, all of whom had their own legacy systems. The large number of parties involved and the complex nature of the various components naturally complicated the testing and integration of each portion of the project.
The errors displayed, and occasionally the lack thereof, indicated an absence of coordination between the parties developing the separate components. A failed sign up attempt, for instance, often resulted in a page that displayed the header but had no content or failure message. A look at end user requests revealed that the database was unavailable. Clearly, the coding for the front end did not include errors for failures on the back end.
Bloat and the Abundance of Minor Issues
Obviously, numerous bugs were also an issue. The system required users to create passwords that included numbers, for example, but failed to disclose that on the form and in subsequent failure messages, leaving users baffled. In another issue, one of the pages intended to ask users to please wait or call instead, but the message and the phone information were accidentally commented out in the code.
While the front-end design has been cleared of blame for the most serious failures, bloat in the code did contribute to the early difficulties users experienced. The site design was heavy with Javascript and CSS files, and it was peppered with small coding errors that became particularly troublesome when users faced bottlenecks in traffic. Frequent typos throughout the code proved to be an additional embarrassment and were another indication of a troubled development process.
NoSQL Database
The NoSQL database is intended to allow for scalability and flexibility in the architecture of projects that will use it. This made NoSQL a logical choice for the health insurance exchange website. The newness of the technology, however, means personnel with expertise can be elusive. Database-related missteps were more likely the result of a lack of experienced administrators than with the technology itself. The choice of the NoSQL database was thus another complication in the development, but did not itself cause the failures.
Another factor of consequence is that the website was built with both agile and waterfall methodology elements. With agile methods for the front end and the waterfall methodology for the back end, streamlining was naturally going to suffer further difficulties. The disparate contractors, varied methods of software development, and an unrealistically short project time line all contributed to the coding failures of the website.
Tech Life in Minnesota
Company Name | City | Industry | Secondary Industry |
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The Affluent Traveler | Saint Paul | Travel, Recreation and Leisure | Travel, Recreation, and Leisure Other |
Xcel Energy Inc. | Minneapolis | Energy and Utilities | Gas and Electric Utilities |
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans | Minneapolis | Financial Services | Personal Financial Planning and Private Banking |
CHS Inc. | Inver Grove Heights | Agriculture and Mining | Agriculture and Mining Other |
Hormel Foods Corporation | Austin | Manufacturing | Food and Dairy Product Manufacturing and Packaging |
St. Jude Medical, Inc. | Saint Paul | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech | Medical Devices |
The Mosaic Company | Minneapolis | Agriculture and Mining | Mining and Quarrying |
Ecolab Inc. | Saint Paul | Manufacturing | Chemicals and Petrochemicals |
Donaldson Company, Inc. | Minneapolis | Manufacturing | Tools, Hardware and Light Machinery |
Michael Foods, Inc. | Minnetonka | Manufacturing | Food and Dairy Product Manufacturing and Packaging |
Regis Corporation | Minneapolis | Retail | Retail Other |
Fastenal Company | Winona | Wholesale and Distribution | Wholesale and Distribution Other |
Securian Financial | Saint Paul | Financial Services | Insurance and Risk Management |
UnitedHealth Group | Minnetonka | Financial Services | Insurance and Risk Management |
The Travelers Companies, Inc. | Saint Paul | Financial Services | Insurance and Risk Management |
Imation Corp. | Saint Paul | Computers and Electronics | Networking Equipment and Systems |
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. | Eden Prairie | Transportation and Storage | Warehousing and Storage |
Ameriprise Financial, Inc. | Minneapolis | Financial Services | Securities Agents and Brokers |
Best Buy Co. Inc. | Minneapolis | Retail | Retail Other |
Nash Finch Company | Minneapolis | Wholesale and Distribution | Grocery and Food Wholesalers |
Medtronic, Inc. | Minneapolis | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech | Medical Devices |
LAND O'LAKES, INC. | Saint Paul | Manufacturing | Food and Dairy Product Manufacturing and Packaging |
General Mills, Inc. | Minneapolis | Manufacturing | Food and Dairy Product Manufacturing and Packaging |
Pentair, Inc. | Minneapolis | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Other |
Supervalu Inc. | Eden Prairie | Retail | Grocery and Specialty Food Stores |
U.S. Bancorp | Minneapolis | Financial Services | Banks |
Target Corporation, Inc. | Minneapolis | Retail | Department Stores |
3M Company | Saint Paul | Manufacturing | Chemicals and Petrochemicals |
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