Creeva’s World 2.0

Image from Techcrunch in this arti­cle

It seems that Twit­ter is a being a lit­tle excited about the next big tech event, WWDC (World Wide Devel­op­ers Con­fer­ence — it’s an Apple thing).   I first got the news from the Techcrunch arti­cle linked above, but it seems that Twit­ter made an announce­ment that there will be no down time tomor­row — I call shenani­gans.   They out­lined the pre­cau­tions in this arti­cle, among them are the following:

We’ve moved much of the load off our data­base by uti­liz­ing more mem­cache, employ­ing more read-slave servers, and by fix­ing some bugs for improved effi­ciency. This work is in intended to help han­dle the load and keep Twit­ter up and run­ning while Steve Jobs talks about all the new prod­ucts and ser­vices Apple has planned. Of course these improve­ments will con­tinue to serve Twit­ter beyond the WWDC as well.

Now it may just be me, but I’ve seen Twit­ter fail on slow days.  I know they have had expe­ri­ence with sim­i­lar traf­fic load form other major teh events, but they crashed then.   While they may have some idea of the data they will need to han­dle, I’m not sure if they can truly appre­ci­ate the amount of data they need to han­dle when the tech world needs it’s geek porn instant updates.

Iron­i­cally there is no news if they are going to be tak­ing updates via IM or SMS tomor­row, I’m bet­ting not.   This way they get to han­dle a “larger load” — i.e. peo­ple that won’t be going to the site itself won’t be updat­ing.  So it’s a win by not gen­er­at­ing as much traf­fic.  Cheaters!!

For those that want to use twit­ter via IM to post updates (but you can’t receive them this way) I rec­om­mend try­ing Imi­fied, it allows you to post to Twit­ter via IM even when Twit­ter doesn’t take IM updates through it’s stan­dard channels.

Tweet, tweet.