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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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Jul 11, 2018

if given even more real time examples and practical explaination

By SHESHU K P

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May 26, 2018

Nice content and overall good for beginners to get started

By Aatish P A

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Jan 20, 2021

can be updated with latest trends in the industry.

By T A

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Dec 9, 2019

Excellent delivery of some difficult concepts

By Kamath S S

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Feb 5, 2019

very good and insightful course for beginners

By Debasis D

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May 14, 2019

Good Course provided by Coursera. Thank you

By Paulo F

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Sep 25, 2019

Good training content and well structured

By Deleted A

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Mar 14, 2017

Really good course for distributed funda!

By Subhamjit J

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Mar 30, 2025

its the best im a great learner of this

By Kamal K M

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Apr 7, 2021

Thank you for such valuable course.

By Sreenivasamurthy D

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Jun 4, 2020

Content was good. Neatly explained

By Abhishek K C

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May 21, 2020

overall good depth of information

By Hugo A A S D

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Sep 28, 2018

Nice course but too much theory.

By Ananth K

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Jul 20, 2017

Good concepts on Cloud Inf

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Sep 4, 2016

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By Delowara K

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Jul 6, 2020

A Nice course

By YeonUk K

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Dec 17, 2017

great !! but

By Antony C

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Nov 23, 2023

very useful

By Pallavi R

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Dec 23, 2019

Thanks

By Brijesh K Y

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Aug 10, 2021

Nice

By Dr S S - P

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Aug 12, 2020

Good

By Philip O

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Mar 22, 2018

Good

By Pranav P

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Jun 18, 2021

ok

By Manasvi N

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Apr 22, 2019

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By Miklós A R

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Jul 16, 2017

The content is very good, the course gives a wide overview on the topics. On the other hand for me it was a bit slow and found many repetitions in the course videos, the exams could have been harder and could have helped to deepen understanding a bit more. I was lacking the programming assignments, as well.