Technical and development lead of the official UK COVID-19 Dashboard.
Software geek. Researcher in neuroscience & biomedical data science. Former teaching fellow at University College London.
Location
London, UK
Education
Birkbeck College, University of London and UCL
Work
Deputy head of software engineering for web and data services at UK Health Security Agency
I don't disagree with you at all. All I'm saying is that there were mitigating circumstances. We had issues that we couldn't resolve in the previous version, so it was a catch-22, and a risk that on balance, I considered to be reasonable. For what it is worth, I stand by my decision to do the upgrade. Despite the issue, we have have significant improvements and we have managed to reduce the running cost quite substantially.
We have million of test cases - literally. But not matter how much we try, there would always be cases that we couldn't anticipate. That's why major services with a whole lot more resource than that which we can imagine break every once in a while.
Unfortunately, things happen, and all we can do is learn from them.
Thank you again.
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I don't disagree with you at all. All I'm saying is that there were mitigating circumstances. We had issues that we couldn't resolve in the previous version, so it was a catch-22, and a risk that on balance, I considered to be reasonable. For what it is worth, I stand by my decision to do the upgrade. Despite the issue, we have have significant improvements and we have managed to reduce the running cost quite substantially.
We have million of test cases - literally. But not matter how much we try, there would always be cases that we couldn't anticipate. That's why major services with a whole lot more resource than that which we can imagine break every once in a while.
Unfortunately, things happen, and all we can do is learn from them.
Thank you again.