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Why are healthcare servers still getting overloaded when HIPAA compliant "infinitely scalable for a price" cloud systems like AWS exist.

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>"infinitely scalable for a price" cloud systems like AWS exist.

That only applies if your application is programmed for it. Good luck scaling even if you had aws if your server had database locks everywhere, for instance.

Or maybe, the developers need to go back to school to learn about horizontal and auto scaling.

Which school would that be? My cs program was all math and data structures. I learned everything I know about software development on my own.

Yeah, the college I went to back in '09 _just_ started teaching version control. All we learned were concepts and common languages from each of the major domains of programming, and math. That's it. (Think like SQL for DB, Java / Python for application development, c and c++ for embedded systems and operating systems, etc.)

Software engineering can be studied at University and is a different degree and I think even falls under a different department to cs.

And why now? I'm sure it would be much easier than normal to get AWS and some relevantly skilled professionals to donate enough time to make a workable reservation system.

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