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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:

1. Cloud Computing Intro
2. Cloud Networks and Databases
3. App Hosting in Cloud
4. Performance of Cloud Apps
5. Serverless Cloud Computing
6. 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