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About the Course

Welcome to the Cloud Computing Applications course, the first part of a two-course series designed to give you a comprehensive view on the world of Cloud Computing and Big Data! In this first course we cover a multitude of technologies that comprise the modern concept of cloud computing. Cloud computing is an information technology revolution that has just started to impact many enterprise computing systems in major ways, and it will change the face of computing in the years to come. We start the first week by introducing some major concepts in cloud computing, the economics foundations of it and we introduce the concept of big data. We also cover the concept of software defined architectures, and how virtualization results in cloud infrastructure and how cloud service providers organize their offerings. In week two, we cover virtualization and containers with deeper focus, including lectures on Docker, JVM and Kubernates. We finish up week two by comparing the infrastructure as a service offering by the big three: Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Week three moves to higher level of cloud offering, including platform as a service, mobile backend as a service and even serverless architectures. We also talk about some of the cloud middleware technologies that are fundamental to cloud based applications such as RPC and REST, JSON and load balancing. Week three also covers metal as a service (MaaS), where physical machines are provisioned in a cloud environment. Week four introduces higher level cloud services with special focus on cloud storage services. We introduce Hive, HDFS and Ceph as pure Big Data Storage and file systems, and move on to cloud object storage systems, virtual hard drives and virtual archival storage options. As discussion on Dropbox cloud solution wraps up week 4 and the course....

Top reviews

SP

Feb 17, 2017

Well structured course. Gives a good overview of the basics of cloud computing. couple of typos in the transcripts. will flag errors in future courses

UN

Apr 9, 2018

Understanding of this course will help you to know more about Cloud Computing and the technologies that drive Big Data

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By Animesh P

Jul 8, 2020

Some of the concepts have been taught in a very abstract manner. But overall, good.

By Niels R

Jul 7, 2018

This course provides a lot of poorly structured information in quick succession. You're bombarded with acronyms and technical designations without recaps of what they stood for. At the end of each weekly session there is a very short quiz with questions that are weakly related to the course content and have subjective answers like "which application is best for purpose X". You can complete the quizes easily by retrying and won't typically come away from them feeling like you understood all of the material, let alone were able to prove that you did. It's kind of a worst of both world situation where the provided material is challenging, but the examination is not and you end up with a certificate that really doesn't stand for anything.

By Julien L

Apr 9, 2020

Disappointing. Not at all the quality of the two first courses of this specialization. The course content/materials seem to have been done too quickly. No practical assignment. I dont recommend this course.

By Vasiliy I

May 3, 2020

Seems like Mr. Campbell do not understand what is he talking about. In addition , this course is a little about everything and this is not what I expected

By Rodrigo F V

Jan 28, 2018

I doubt there is any other easier way to understand the basics of cloud computing, this course is the best kick off I found about this theme and I learned more here, than in a few months in Google because of the lack of method of learning and correctly information, which I found here and after around 20 MOOCs courses, this one seems to have the best methodology.

This course offer enought to let a person walking in his own shoes in any cloud available nowadays and was exactly what I need to undestand Cloud Computing, and I was be able learn about DevOps concept too, even not been part of this course.

By Gagan A

Dec 21, 2020

Extremely well put together course by amazingly knowledgeable and articulate professors. Perfect balance between academically taught theory and practical knowledge relevant for industry. High on knowledge yet low on pressure, so the learning experience is much more fun. Great stepping stone for passing various certification exams and/or to start a new career in cloud computing.

By Geng X

Oct 22, 2020

Basic understanding of benchmark skills of Cloud Computing. If could share the combined slides of different lectures, could be better!

By Dario F B

Nov 6, 2020

Very good overview of all the technologies available in the main providers of cloud services

By E. M R A

Jun 26, 2020

Very Very useful course for learning about cloud computing basic. love it :)

Thanks

By Tharchan G

Dec 31, 2020

best Starting course if u are starting but need self research also

By Abhishek M T

May 18, 2023

Excellent course overall on the cloud systems and infrastructure !

By Ashwin K

May 31, 2020

Awesome course for cloud computing technology

By Rushikesh W

Apr 29, 2020

its a very use full course in your future.

By Sheetal L

Jul 24, 2020

very knowledegable and good course

By Mahalakshmi

Dec 2, 2016

Great course, extremely helpful!!

By Ibrahim M

Jul 24, 2019

very good course , i like it

By Fairoz A

Aug 15, 2020

Nice Experience, thank you

By Sreenivasulu B

Sep 23, 2019

Great introductory course!

By Patrick F

Apr 14, 2017

thank you for everything !

By 林岑勳

May 6, 2019

good to learn about cloud

By Michael M

Aug 12, 2018

This was a great course.

By Gautam S

Jul 13, 2018

Great course and content

By Anakot K R

Oct 27, 2017

Good Introduction.

By S S K

May 13, 2017

It's very useful.

By BISWARUP N

Nov 28, 2022

very good course