Twitter is, of course, about to become deeply baked into iOS 5, and that’s going to drive a lot of traffic to the micro-blogging service’s servers. So what is Twitter doing to get its servers prepared for the rush of new traffic? Injecting them with radioactive super-server serum?
The answer might surprise you: not a damn thing.
According to Twitter’s VP of Engineer Michael Abbott, Twitter’s pretty comfortable with their server capacity, and think it can handle iOS 5.
“During the last nine months, there’s been more infrastructure changes at Twitter than there had been in the previous five years at the company,” said Abbott, who joined Twitter in May 2010. “So that whether it be the death of bin Laden, or someone announces a pregnancy, we can handle those issues and you’re not seeing a fail whale.”
Ironically, I’ve seen a fail whale in recent memory, so I’m not quite as confident that Twitter is so robust as they’d have us believe. I guess we’ll know soon enough though.