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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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    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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AWS / DevOps1 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 / Full-Stack9 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-Stack3 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…

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Learn how to Dynamically Add App Features with AWS AppConfig Feature Flags (+ Linux 101)

In this blog post, I'll go through the workshop, the code I used to run everything, screenshots of the deployment process, and I will also go through how to use Linux and an Amazon EC2 instance to deploy all of the code in a VM (virtual machine). What we will build is a simple Airbnb-for-Cribs home rental application and switch in an image viewer carousel for each listed home via AWS AppConfig. Here's what it will look like (unfortunately, IRL mansions are not included)…

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Render Table Data In React.js (Coding, Template Literals, JSON, Data as Props, JavaScript Objects)

n this episode of the Tech Stack Playbook, I break down 5 data formats (including arrays, JavaScript objects, and JSON data) and show you how to render them in a table with ReactJS, one of the most popular frameworks for building progressive web applications. I noticed that the documentation is sparse sometimes of how to organize information in lists for the front end: Hard Coding a Table, Using Variables/Template Literals, Passing in Data As Props into a Table, Passing in a JSON Data File into a Table, and Passing in JavaScript Objects into a table with spread operators in ReactJS.

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