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

weeks

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Remote

language

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.

Upcoming dates

Are you interested in applying for our course? Then register here and we will inform you as soon as the next course dates are published.

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

17H40

16H00

18H00

21H00

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.

Earn a Certificate of Accomplishment

Share your Certificate on social networks, printed resumes, CVs or other documents. Boost your career with the new skills that you gained.

Certificate

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.

FAQs

How is the day by day schedule?

Every course starts with a 60-70 mins introduction to a new topic, followed by 2 hours of guided exercises with the personalized mentorship of teachers and assistants. During the Q&A sessions (on Mondays and 20 minutes before each course), you are totally free to connect and ask any questions related to the course and your personal project.

Is there an interview selection for this course?

No, as long as you meet the listed prerequisites. The main goal is to get to a level consistent with Cloud certificates.

How does SIT Academy’s curriculum differ from self-paced training?

Our digital learning platform and teaching methods give you the best of both worlds, a perfect mix of online and mentor-supported learning.
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