Why do I need to learn about cloud computing?

Because you will develop software systems that often leverage cloud services for quick deployment, scalable computation, and 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?

First, please read this book to learn about the core concepts of cloud computing: Dan C. Marinescu (2022). Cloud Computing – Theory and Practice. Morgan Kaufmann.

After that, please read this book to gain hands-on experience with Amazon cloud services: Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig (2022). Amazon Web Services in Action. Manning Publications.

After that, please read this book to gain hands-on experience with VMware private cloud products: Nick Marshall et al. (2019). Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7. Sybex.

After that, please read the books below to gain hands-on experience with Salesforce platform features:

• Rakesh Gupta (2020). Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification – A Practical Study Guide. Apress
• Philip Weinmeister (2019). Practical Salesforce Development Without Code – Building Declarative Solutions on the Salesforce Platform. Apress

After that, please read this book to gain hands-on experience with Hadoop and Spark systems: Tomasz Wiktorski (2019). Data-Intensive Systems – Principles and Fundamentals using Hadoop and Spark. Springer.

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 cloud computing, please click on Topic 27 – Introduction to Blockchain to continue.