Harsha Pitawela (’19 MCS alumnus - Now Site Reliability Engineer at Pearson | AWS Community Builder) has offered to run a Cloud Computing Workshop Series this summer!
Our very own Computer Science Graduate Student Association will offer ad hoc support for this series.
Please find below tentative details:
Use this link to register (or see attached flyer)
Purpose:
To familiarize CS students with cloud computing and support them to meet industry expectations and land a job/internship
Mode of delivery:
Zoom
Timeline:
1 hour per week for 6 weeks
Either Wednesday noon-1 p.m. CT
Topics to be covered:
- Cloud Computing Intro
- Cloud Networks and Databases
- App Hosting in Cloud
- Performance of Cloud Apps
- Serverless Cloud Computing
- Advanced Cloud Concepts
Expected Content:
Workshop 1-Introduction to Cloud Computing
- Why Cloud computing
- Major Cloud Service Providers
- Security in/of the Cloud
- Challenges in Cloud Computing
- Industry Expectations
- Cloud Computing Learning Paths
- Cloud Account Creation
Workshop 2-Cloud Networks and Databases
- VPC creation
- Subnet’s creation
- Cloud DB creation
- Best Practices in Cloud Computing
- Bastion Host creation
- Connection to Cloud DB via the Bastion Host
- DB Snapshots/Restore
Workshop 3-Hosting an Application in the Cloud
- Virtual Machine creation
- Application Hosting
- Connection from application to DB
- Connection from application to object storage
- Creating a Content Delivery Network(CDN)
- Debugging applications in the Cloud
Workshop 4-Performance of Cloud Applications
- Load Balancing & Health checks
- Containerized Applications
- Monitoring/Performance Observability Engineering
Workshop 5-Serverless Cloud Concepts
- Benefits of Serverless Computing
- Serverless options in the cloud
- Troubleshooting Serverless Application issues
Workshop 6-Advanced Cloud Concepts
- Scalability and Fault Tolerance
- Infrastructure as Code
- Securing applications in the cloud
- AI/ML in the Cloud