Brian H. Hough
Software builder · Content creator · Speaker
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Field guides on AI, AWS, security and shipping software — what I'm building, what broke, and exactly how to do it yourself.
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Crackable CA Keys: Your Browser Got Patched. Did Your Stack?
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[01]Artificial Intelligence / Entrepreneurship · 11 min read
Automating Code Generation with OpenAI GPT Agents: A Developer's Journey to Efficiency
Learn how to turn tedious, hours-long work processes into done-in-a-few-seconds with custom OpenAI GPT Agents! In this guide, you’ll learn how to create your first GPT Agent and how I automated my code snippet…
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[02]Career / DevOps · 7 min read
Thankful for the AWS Community Builders Program & Building + AWS Step Functions 101
Discover how the AWS Community Builders Program fosters career growth with a global network, exclusive training, and mentorship. Learn to build a holiday-themed AWS Step Function state machine as a tribute to the…
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[03]AWS / Artificial Intelligence · 2 min read
AWS: Predicting Stock Prices Using AI & NO CODE!
Get started building with Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning on Amazon Web Services (AWS) without writing a single line of code! Dive into this exciting video series where we explore the possibility of…
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Learning to Code··3 min read
Want to Learn How to Code? Discover the Top 4 Platforms to Kickstart Your Software Engineer Journey of Coding
Want to learn how to code. Here’s 4 places to start: Udacity, AppAcademy, Uplimit, and Codecademy. Learn more about these platforms and their software engineering resources to either start learning or level up in your…
AWS / Artificial Intelligence··4 min read
Turn Your AI Model into a Real Product (Amazon SageMaker, API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Next.js, Python)
Wondering how to turn your Amazon SageMaker AI model into a real product? Whether you’re deploying the model to Amazon SageMaker, Google CoLab, or some other hosting platform, I have felt that it has been rather…
AWS / Artificial Intelligence··5 min read
Launch your own LLM (Deploy LLaMA 2 on Amazon SageMaker with Hugging Face Deep Learning Containers)
Want to deploy your own Large Language Model that's smarter than ChatGPT? 🤔💭 In this exciting Tech Stack Playbook® tutorial, we'll walk through how to deploy Meta AI's LLaMA 2 LLM on Amazon SageMaker using Hugging…
AWS / Career··1 min read
Road to re:Invent: Our 1st Tech Conference (AWS All Builders Welcome Grant)
In this Tech Stack Playbook® CHATS, I'll be joined by 4 amazing guests to deep dive into all of the excitement around one of AWS' most incredible programs available to early career and underrepresented builders: the AWS…
AWS / DevOps··1 min read
AWS x Valorant Champions
Super excited to be bringing you all behind-the-scenes of Valorant Champions this week with Riot Games x Amazon Web Services (AWS)! Last night at the kickoff, we learned a lot today about how Riot Games scaled Valorant…
AWS / Serverless··2 min read
AWS NYC Summit 2023 Talk: Scaling Event-Driven Architectures with Serverless Micropayments (DevChat)
At the AWS NYC Summit 2023, I delivered a 30 minute DevChat to ~200 attendees on how I built an event-driven serverless micropayments system on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for The Capital Platform. In my talk, I discuss…
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning··9 min read
Do’s, Don’ts, and Gotcha’s from working with Amazon SageMaker & AI (Get started with MLOps)
Learn about AI and machine learning in production, AI and MLOps pipelines with Amazon SageMaker. From LLMs like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Bar, and HuggingFace, code interpreters like Amazon CodeWhisperer...
AWS / Career··1 min read
Builders Sesh with AWS Community Builders (Sully Martinez & Olumuyiwa Kolayemi)
On the Tech Stack Playbook today, I'm going live with 2 of my favorite builders, Sully Martinez & Olumuyiwa Kolayemi, to talk about tech, life, building on AWS, and what we've been up to. We are all AWS Community…
AWS / Full-Stack··2 min read
freeCodeCamp: Full-Stack Next.js, TypeScript, and AWS Course – Code a Quote Generator
In my 6-hour freeCodeCamp course, learn how to use Next.js, TypeScript, and AWS Amplify to build a full stack inspirational quote generator app. You'll learn to use the ZenQuotes' API for fetching quotes and then you'll…
AWS / Full-Stack··9 min read
Stacking Serverless Data Structures for a Pomodoro App on AWS
Figuring out numeric sort querying using GraphQL of NoSQL DynamoDB data. This was probably the hardest step for me in this project because at the highest level, when you are running a data stream with chaining, you…
AWS / Full-Stack··3 min read
Wrangling GraphQL Data Schemas with AWS AppSync
AppSync will help you auto-build your queries and mutations based on the schema you define in your schema.graphql file. Not only does this reduce the possibility of errors in production, but it also increases your…
AWS / Full-Stack··2 min read
Build an Inspirational Quote Generator (AWS, NextJS, TypeScript, NodeJS) - 6 HOUR CLOUD PROJECT!
In this epic build, we're going to create a completely serverless quote generator using AWS as our cloud back-end and NextJS/TypeScript as our front-end. What you'll learn in this build is how to: Build a ~cool~…
Crackable CA Keys: Your Browser Got Patched. Did Your Stack?
Eight eMudhra CA keys were recoverable. Browsers blocked them in hours, but Go services, mobile apps and old containers need their own fix. Here's how to check yours.