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Welcome to the first course in the Building Cloud Computing Solutions at Scale Specialization! In this course, you will learn how to build foundational Cloud computing infrastructure, including websites involving serverless technology and virtual machines. You will also learn how to apply Agile software development techniques to projects which will be useful in building portfolio projects and global-scale Cloud infrastructures. 
This course is ideal for beginners as well as intermediate students interested in applying Cloud computing to data science, machine learning and data engineering. Students should have beginner level Linux and intermediate level Python skills. For your project in this course, you will build a statically hosted website using the Hugo framework, AWS Code Pipelines, AWS S3 and GitHub.

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Building Cloud Computing Solutions at Scale Specialization

Beginner Level

Beginner level Linux and Python skills

Approx. 19 hours to complete

English

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Github
Devops
Cloud Computing

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Course 1 of 4 in the

Building Cloud Computing Solutions at Scale Specialization

Beginner Level

Beginner level Linux and Python skills

Approx. 19 hours to complete

English

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Noah Gift

Executive in Residence and Founder of Pragmatic AI Labs

Interdisciplinary Data Science (MIDS)

36,774 Learners

10 Courses

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Duke University

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Getting Started with Cloud Computing Foundations

This week, you will learn how to access the free tiers of three Cloud environments. You will then have an opportunity to review the details of the final project in this course: Building a Hugo Static Website that is Continuously Deployed using AWS Code Build and AWS S3 Static Hosting. Each week, you will learn and build upon key Cloud development skills to prepare you for this final course project.

2 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 9 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz

Week2

Week 2

4 hours to complete

Developing Effective Technical Communication

Getting started with a good plan is the most challenging part of building software. Before we dive into the technical aspects of Cloud development, let's spend some time discussing strategies for effective technical communication. This week, you will learn strategies for expressing thoughts effectively in a technical forum in a digitally native way, constructing effective technical discussions that enhance discussions and provide reusable documentation and explaining successful techniques for teamwork in technical projects. You will apply this by creating a project plan for the Final Course Project. This project plan includes a spreadsheet, a GitHub project and a Trello board.

4 hours to complete

12 videos (Total 51 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz

12 videos

Introduction to Technical Discussions1mTechnical Discussions with Markdown, GitHub and Jupyter/Colab10mCreating Technical Demo Videos1mEffective Critical Thinking5mEffective Technical Triple Threat2mIntroduction to Effective Technical Teamwork37sEffective Technical Teamwork6mIntroduction to Technical Project Management2mEffective Technical Project Management5mTicket Tracking with Trello4mProject Planning with Spreadsheets5mProject Management Anti-Patterns5m

3 readings

Effective Technical Discussions10mEffective Technical Project Management10mProject Plan for Course 1 Project10m

1 practice exercise

Effective Technical Communication Quiz20m

Week3

Week 3

7 hours to complete

Exploring Cloud Onboarding

7 hours to complete

13 videos (Total 90 min), 7 readings, 1 quiz

13 videos

Introduction to AWS Cloud Development5mIntroduction to Continuous Integration4mCloud Development with AWS Cloud99mConstructing a Python Project Scaffold19mIntroduction to GitHub Actions8mIntroduction to Azure Cloud Development2mIntroduction to Testing5mCloud Development with Azure Cloud Shell3mAzure Cloud Shell Continuous Integration from Zero12mIntroduction to GCP Cloud Development50sIntroduction to Continuous Delivery4mCloud Development with Google Cloud Shell6mGCP Google App Engine Continuous Delivery from Zero9m

7 readings

Cloud Onboarding with Amazon Web Services (AWS)10mReview GitHub Actions GitHub Project10mCloud Onboarding for Azure10mWhat is a Makefile and Why Do You Need it?10mCloud Onboarding for GCP10mGAE CD GitHub Source Code Walkthrough10mMulti-Cloud Continuous Integration10m

1 practice exercise

Cloud Onboarding Quiz30m

Week4

Week 4

2 hours to complete

Evaluating the Cloud Service Model

2 hours to complete

11 videos (Total 59 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz

11 videos

Introduction to Cloud Computing2mWhat is Cloud Computing?3mCloud Computing Service Models4mIntroduction to Building Multiple Websites2mBuilding a Static S3 Website on AWS5mBuilding a Serverless Website on AWS Lambda5mBuilding a Website on an EC2 Virtual Machine10mBuilding a Website using PaaS with AWS Beanstalk12mIntroduction to Cloud Computing Economics2mCloud Computing Economics: A Story2mCloud Economics Deep Dive8m

3 readings

Cloud Computing Service Models10mBuilding Multiple Types of Websites10mContinuous Delivery with AWS Elastic Beanstalk10m

1 practice exercise

Cloud Service Model Quiz30m

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TOP REVIEWS FROM CLOUD COMPUTING FOUNDATIONS

by MCJan 6, 2022

This is an excellent course for some one who is just getting in cloud computing.

by BMSep 22, 2022

Great for building a foundation, but some of the videos are a bit meandering, and in some cases relevant setup / configuration is left out of the discussion.

by RMNov 2, 2021

Great Intro. Noah's insights are, to my estimation, the greatest content of this course

by ESFeb 12, 2022

This is an excellent intro to Cloud Computing and the command line! I strongly recommend for anyone interested in distributed operations.

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About the Building Cloud Computing Solutions at Scale Specialization

With more companies leveraging software that runs on the Cloud, there is a growing need to find and hire individuals with the skills needed to build solutions on a variety of Cloud platforms. Employers agree: Cloud talent is hard to find. This Specialization is designed to address the Cloud talent gap by providing training to anyone interested in developing the job-ready, pragmatic skills needed for careers that leverage Cloud-native technologies.

In the first course, you will learn how to build foundational Cloud computing infrastructure, including websites involving serverless technology and virtual machines, using the best practices of DevOps. The second course will teach you how to build effective Microservices using technologies like Flask and Kubernetes that are continuously deployed to a Cloud platform: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The third course begins to put together all of the Cloud concepts introduced in the first two courses to tackle more complex data engineering solutions. And finally, in the fourth course you will apply Machine Learning Engineering to build a Flask web application that serves out Machine Learning predictions.

Building Cloud Computing Solutions at Scale

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