The importance of caching
In 2013, the US government launched https://healthcare.gov/, a website for citizens to sign up for the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare). From the get-go, the site was plagued with serious technological problems. For thousands of people, it simply wouldn’t load.
To be fair, the site was under enormous strain, visited an estimated 20 million times in its first month of operation (source--http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24613022), but that strain was to be expected.
If you were building a website for millions of people to sign up for health care (all starting at the same time), performance would probably be at the top of your mind, but in the end, https://healthcare.gov/ failed to deliver.
In response ...
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