Ed Brown

Big data and streaming analytics and cool software building nerd. Retweets != endorsements and opinions given are my own, even though you should agree with them

[Ed Brown @EdSwArchitect]

I'm trying to find a sister I was recently made aware of.

https://t.co/LQTqmdS2Ch

[Ed Brown @EdSwArchitect]

In memoriam to the fallen soldiers

[Kevin Oestreicher @koestreicher34]

Bleacher Report gave the Ravens a "D" grade for their 2026 offseason report card

"It's difficult to look at the Baltimore Ravens and say they're a better team today than they were last season"

[Taylor Poindexter @engineering_bae]

This is why I got rid of my Oura ring years ago.

I’d wake up feeling absolutely amazing and well rested. Only to check my phone and have it tell me I actually slept like crap and should take it easy today.

I then found myself not working out in case it was right.

[Ed Brown @EdSwArchitect]

Say less.

[Ed Brown @EdSwArchitect]

You'd read about me in the news, see me on TV, and TMZ would dedicate a section to me

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

The lines at Atlanta airport are not to be believed.

Imagine showing up 3-4 hours early, and still missing your flight.

[Taylor Poindexter @engineering_bae]

I know things in the lounges are UGLY.

[Ed Brown @EdSwArchitect]

@GergelyOrosz They are no longer "so much better"

[Ed Brown @EdSwArchitect]

Pretty much….

[The Ravens Realm @RealmRavens]

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

[Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik]

Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems. The official framing is "part of normal business." The briefing note describes a trend of incidents with "high blast radius" caused by "Gen-AI assisted changes" for which "best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established." Translation to human language: we gave AI to engineers and things keep breaking?
The response for now? Junior and mid-level engineers can no longer push AI-assisted code without a senior signing off. AWS spent 13 hours recovering after its own AI coding tool, asked to make some changes, decided instead to delete and recreate the environment (the software equivalent of fixing a leaky tap by knocking down the wall). Amazon called that an "extremely limited event" (the affected tool served customers in mainland China).

[Ed Brown @EdSwArchitect]

The new "rm -Rf *" from root

[Alexey Grigorev @Al_Grigor]

Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command.

It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards.

Automated snapshots were gone too.

In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again.

If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read.

https://t.co/Mbi3oM4HMn

[Ed Brown @EdSwArchitect]

I got this letter. I investigated it and learned it was legitimate. I didn't sign up for the "protection", since they did a bad job before AND I already have 3 other services.

[Malwarebytes @Malwarebytes]

Adulthood is just getting letters from a company that you've never heard of, telling you they leaked your data that you didn't know they had, and including a multi-step to-do list for you to protect the data that they did not.

[Kierra | Data Conversationalist🎙 @iamKierraD]

Exactly. This era of layoffs stem from business strategy and change management issues. We are seeing the top of the industry being laid off…

[Kierra | Data Conversationalist🎙 @iamKierraD]

Developers should focus on being end to end engineers. A software engineer either devops knowledge is unstoppable, mainly because the real work starts after you initially deploy a product. Monitoring/logging software, automating tests, understanding the infrastructure, etc.

[Brandon Avedikian @bavedikian]

We’ve reached a new level of delusion with the Microsoft AI CEO saying all white collar labor will be replaced by AI within 18 months.

Microsoft should learn how to create a way to search for an email that actually works before claiming they’re going to automate the entire global economy.

And while they’re at it, they should come up with a way for companies to use Microsoft products without having to pay a fortune to an IT firm that employs humans to resolve the software issues that come up every hour on the hour.

[Ed Brown @EdSwArchitect]

I'm playing around with AI for development education purposes, and what's on television as background noise?

The Matrix.

[Ed Brown @EdSwArchitect]

The moment, for fun, you make an Excalidraw diagram and ask the AI to create the s/w architecture, and after a few back and forths, it does it, based on prior tech questions, and the base framework is a great starting point. Including the README.

[Ed Brown @EdSwArchitect]

Some thoughts on AI learning, as a result of this AI image

https://t.co/Jd4Vn6ggmm

[Ed Brown @EdSwArchitect]

The cat is out of the bag....

[Ed Brown @EdSwArchitect]

@GithubProjects Whoops

[Taylor Poindexter @engineering_bae]

I’m a big believer in never saying anything in your work Slack, Teams, etc that you wouldn’t want someone else to potentially read one day.

Maybe no one will ever read it, but I’m heavy on the “better safe than sorry”.