Waiting for 30 minutes to access the Web site of the Road Safety Authority, the Irish equivalent of the DMV. Too bad they don’t have physical offices where I could queue personally…

  • Chestnut@lemmy.world
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    1 年前

    I bet the constraint here isn’t what’s serving the website but either an external dependency that they don’t have control over so that can’t scale or a relational database that they didn’t have the budget or expertise to scale

    Edit: or just that humans have to actually look at it and you’re waiting to talk to one

    My local government does it all async to avoid that issue

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      yeah yeah yeah but how can we get the rage about sensible and rational issues like that???

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      If it were the US, I’d guess the constraint was political meddling by somebody who wants everyone to hate the agency so they have an excuse to privatize it, but I don’t know if Ireland has that kind of problem.