Why do I need to learn about cloud computing?
Because you will develop software systems that usually leverage cloud services for quick deployment or scalable computation or storage.
What can I do after finishing learning cloud computing?
You will be able to
- deploy software systems to public clouds,
- build your private cloud,
- develop software using cloud plaftforms,
- develop software using cloud services,
- leverage cloud services for training and deploying machine learning models,
- leverage cloud services for big data analytics and reporting.
What should I do now?
Please read
– this Dan C. Marinescu (2022). Cloud Computing – Theory and Practice. Morgan Kaufmann book, and
– this Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig (2022). Amazon Web Services in Action. Manning Publications book, and
– this Nick Marshall et al. (2019). Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7. Sybex book, and
– this Rakesh Gupta (2020). Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification – A Practical Study Guide. Apress book, and
– this Philip Weinmeister (2019). Practical Salesforce Development Without Code – Building Declarative Solutions on the Salesforce Platform. Apress book, and
– this Tomasz Wiktorski (2019). Data-Intensive Systems – Principles and Fundamentals using Hadoop and Spark. Springer book.
Terminology Review:
- Software as a Service
- Multitenancy
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Virtual Machines
- Software-Defined Networking
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Platform as a Service
- Containers as a Service
- Function as a Service (Serverless Computing)
- File Storage
- Block Storage
- Object Storage
- Direct-Attached Storage (DAS)
- Network-Attached Storage (NAS)
- Storage Area Network (SAN)
- GFS
- Bigtable
- MapReduce
After finishing learning about cloud computing please click Topic 27 – Introduction to Block Chain to continue.