On March 13th, during the White House Rose Garden address, President Trump informed us that there is a Coronavirus testing site under development. He mentioned that Google is developing such a site. It felt like a good choice. Google has US and Worldwide presence with millions of consumers (aka citizens) on its accounts (thanks to gmail and Android distributions). Definitely they can quickly whip up a few Kubernetes clusters with python and deploy to Google Cloud Platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was possible for such a site will be up and running by midnight of March 13th. It did not happen! I wondered why. There are additional issues written about in New York Times.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note that there are some helpful tips from CDC<\/a> if someone is sick. The big challenge is how to get tested across the United States. There are security, scale, integration, and routing challenges. 15 years back I was fortunate to lead an effort with a talented set of engineers and business professionals to build a donation site for helping people affected by Hurricane Katrina<\/a>. In 20 hours we built a donation site that collected nearly $13.5M in donations over the next 5 days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I spent some time considering additional technical challenges and issues. Below is a quick summary of some inputs in identifying building blocks to get to the final solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Data Items to Consider<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-Static Data<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dynamic Data<\/p>\n\n\n\n Per-User Data<\/p>\n\n\n\n User data easily can be shared across 100s of data stores to reduce latency, increase availability, and performance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Some key methods<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Actors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Modules<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional APIs\/Resource to Consider<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Definitely there are a LOT of items pending to be discovered and built out. This is a good start and something that we can iterate from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On March 13th, during the White House Rose Garden address, President Trump informed us that there is a Coronavirus testing site under development. He mentioned that Google is developing such a site. It felt like a good choice. Google has US and Worldwide presence with millions of consumers (aka citizens) on its accounts (thanks to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,28,18,12],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-health","category-startups","category-technology","tag-health"],"yoast_head":"\n