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.worldEnglish
      901·
      8 months ago

      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

      • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.ukEnglish
        182·
        8 months ago

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

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        54·
        8 months ago

        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.

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      17·
      8 months ago

      Nah I’m sure the Raspberry Pi sitting in a manager’s desk drawer is a totally sufficient server. His nephew that’s “good at the computers” even said so!