funny, I was just thinking that. I'd love to work on twitter, not so much because I care about the service, but because it's fundamentally hard, and that's cool. Personally I wonder why someone hasn't already transitioned Twitter to a publish-subscribe architecture internally, and used a bunch of queues to buffer the impact of load spikes ( a slow tweet is not the same as a dropped tweet! ). But who knows if MySQL is really the best backbone for that anyways.

I will be interested to see where Zawodny does go. His tools have been worth a lot to me over the years, and he communicates well, so he ought to provide a ton of value to whatever his next gig may be.

Too bad for Yahoo. This and other high-profile departures may be coincidental, but rule #1 of a successful career is that you don't burn your bridges. So the kind words on exit don't really mean anything to me. I've pulled this sort of stunt before myself, as I swam away from a sinking ship whispering sweet nothings to the crew.