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.