[douglasfshearer]

One of the developers tweeted last night "...nowhere near crashing the site - you all need to try harder tomorrow"

https://twitter.com/pixeltrix/status/1108518184301268995

[gpmcadam]

How do you know that's one of the developers?

[corobo]

I thought the same thing - the company the person is CTO of builds the petitions website if you click through the link in their bio and then into their projects page

https://unboxed.co/product-stories/petitions/

e: This came out worded as if I was disproving, I'm agreeing with the grandparent comment and showing my working

[zero_iq]

It seems pretty plausible. His tweets give information about why the site crashed, some discussion about how the back-end works, and the company he claims to work for lists the Petitions website as one of their projects.

[ksec]

The whole site is actually open source. Running on Ruby Rails.

[1] https://github.com/alphagov/e-petitions