Fergie's Tech Blog

Traffic crushes fed Monster

From the "We-Couldn't-See-That-One-Coming" Dept., Federal Computer Week reported yesterday that "A high volume of online job listings and applications at two agencies has forced Monster Government Solutions to take down its Internet-based federal job application programs for more than a month, officials said today. The software program, QuickHire, is used by more than 100 federal agencies, but systems at the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency and the Department of Health and Human Services crashed because of the unexpectedly high number of people applying for jobs, and the large number of jobs the agencies posted online."