Clouds

Cloud Computing course

New platforms rise to enable new types of applications. You need to be proficient in Cloud Computing to stay relevant. Get mentored through concepts and best-practices to help tackle your most ambitious challenges.

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Part-Time

6

6 Weeks

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Remote

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English

Program overview

Whether you know the basic concepts or already had your first encounter with the Cloud, this course will teach you the skills needed to kick-off your career and earn an official certification with one of the cloud providers. Learn how to differentiate between cloud services and decide which ones make more sense for your use case, both in terms of business strategy and technology. You will have acquired hands-on experience in working and setting up all major FAAS, IAAS, PAAS Services, as well as Kubernetes.

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Schedule: Tue & Thu, 16:00 - 19:00 (remote)

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What you'll learn

0

Introduction session

Meet the instructors and students during our 1 hour Introduction to the course. Get more information about the curriculum, methods and the tools used during the course. The aim is to set you up and make you feel comfortable with our online learning environment.

1

Overview & FAAS

Day 1: Context and Motivation
  • Contextualize the role of cloud and where/how it is different from previous technological platforms.
  • Difference Public, Private, Hybrid Cloud.
  • Difference IAAS, FAAS, PAAS, SAAS.
  • Most common Cloud Services and their use cases.
  • Importance of CICD, DevOps, Reactive Programming, Scalability, Reliability, Availability.
  • How and why to be cloud native.
  • Design patterns (micro services vs soa vs monolithic)
Day 2: Tools and FAAS
  • Interacting with the cloud: Dashboard, SDKs, APIs.
  • Security (IAM, identity, authorization, authentication) & Policies.
  • Resource organization
  • Serverless Computing
  • FAAS

2

IAAS

Day 1: Vms
  • Availability and Regions.
  • CDNs
  • VPCs
  • VMs (autoscaling, preemptible VMs)
  • Load Balancing
  • Containers and Container Orchestration.
  • Setting up a CI/CD pipeline.
Day 2: Storage
  • Relational
  • Blob
  • NoSql
  • Tradeoffs
  • Availability and Regions
  • Development, operation and migration best practices.

3

PAAS for Software Development

  • Available Services.
  • Structure of a web app.
  • Deploy apps with PAAS solutions.

4

PAAS for Data Engineering

  • Available Services.
  • Structure of a data driven app.
  • Event driven vs message driven.
  • Deploy apps with PAAS solutions.

5

Kubernetes

Day 1: Part I
  • Learn fundamentals of Kubernetes.
  • Learn how to architect with Kubernetes.
  • Learn how to interact with a Cluster
Day 2: Part II
  • Advanced features

6

Mini-project

Select from a list of projects provided by SIT Academy or work on a topic of your choice. In both cases, the instructor and TAs will help you to get the most out of it.

Weekly schedule

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Tue

Wed

Thu

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Sat

09H00

12H00

13H00

15H40

16H00

17H00

18H00

19H00

Q&A Session

During these sessions, you are totally free to connect and ask any questions about the covered topics.

Lecture

Learn from our instructors who are experts in their respective fields and get introduced to new topics during live lectures.

Practice

Work on a set of interesting and challenging exercises related to the topics covered in the previous lesson.

Application process and prerequisites

Basic knowledge of Cloud Computing, motivated learner that’s passionate about technology, some experience in programming or Devops.
Simply apply to the program here.

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