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About the Course

Welcome to the first course in the Building Cloud Computing Solutions at Scale Specialization! In this course, you will learn how to build foundational Cloud computing infrastructure, including websites involving serverless technology and virtual machines. You will also learn how to apply Agile software development techniques to projects which will be useful in building portfolio projects and global-scale Cloud infrastructures. This course is ideal for beginners as well as intermediate students interested in applying Cloud computing to data science, machine learning and data engineering. Students should have beginner level Linux and intermediate level Python skills. For your project in this course, you will build a statically hosted website using the Hugo framework, AWS Code Pipelines, AWS S3 and GitHub....

Top reviews

TV

Jun 27, 2021

Great introduction into the best practice for continuous integration and deployment and how to apply these concept in the cloud. Good balance between practical and theoretical.

SE

Nov 11, 2021

Everything I have been looking for to get started with cloud computing frameworks and concepts. The content was applied and well explained by Prof. Gift.

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By YL C

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Nov 28, 2021

A good overview to build on cloud!

By Ijeoma O

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Aug 8, 2021

Excellent foundations course.

By 121910319054 Y H

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Apr 8, 2022

great experience to learn

By Richard A

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May 18, 2022

covers the basics

By Harsh A G

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Jan 27, 2022

Great Experience.

By Nicolás F

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May 27, 2021

Excellent!!

By SYED F

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Jan 31, 2024

Excellent!

By Amna Y A

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Jan 24, 2022

شكرا لكم

By Aaryan S

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Mar 3, 2024

good

By 21R21A12K0 S R A

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Feb 26, 2024

Good

By SANDHYA R N 2

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Apr 8, 2022

good

By Taozheng Z

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Jul 2, 2021

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By Rod G

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Mar 4, 2023

Overall this course has been extremely beneficial to me. It's helped to bring clarity to the modern software development process. I do like the fact that Noah includes "mistakes" in his videos because rarely things go perfectly when you're doing them on your own and it helps with learning how to debug.

There were some portions of the videos that skipped critical steps and it would be helpful if you'd go back and add a few points. For instance in the final project, knowing how to create the proper policy so that the CodeBuild service has the proper permissions is critical. It would be extremely helpful to create a 10 min video to explain this.

By Marta L

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Aug 23, 2021

I'm torn, because on one side this course is giving really practical touch to translating computing into daily business activities, on the other side it's within the presentation/videos very generic (a lot od talking, not much synthetical slides). And it does require python intermediate level as well as github experience. Me as a person without the technical background and knowledge of programming could not leverage on labs at all.

By Danilo B R

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Jan 29, 2023

Awesome Course, the unique I didn't like was: The use frameworks like Flask and Hugo, but don't explain such about them, we don't really learn about this frameworks, I hate the use of applications without proper teaching, this get you off. But I still recommend it.

By Michael H

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Sep 6, 2021

DevOp concepts are explained well and taught, but web deployment at the end gets a bit tangled up. Amazon also updated cloud9 interface so some things need to be learned independently. I look forward to the remaining courses in the specialization.

By Matt S

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Sep 27, 2021

Really loved some of the tutorials on here, however, there were a few with bugs and errors that should be updated. Overall though, great intro to all the cloud services and jargon you hear. Looking forward to the next courses.

By Ben M

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Sep 22, 2022

Great for building a foundation, but some of the videos are a bit meandering, and in some cases relevant setup / configuration is left out of the discussion.

By Juan E G L

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Jul 2, 2022

Update guidelines and addend follow ups

By Vikash S

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Jun 24, 2022

Informative & Excellent

By Oussama B

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Jan 24, 2022

Amazing course

By dumebi j

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Nov 14, 2021

good

By Lars N

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Sep 24, 2023

A lot of the examples do not work because the setup is outdated. You can get them work but it takes a while if you have not used the cloud computing tools before. I found videos by the same instructor on YouTube going over similar topics. It seems like this course was thrown together pretty quickly and really does not seem up to what I think Duke standards should be. It really is annoying when even the instructor cannot get examples to work. I think more time could be used to go deeper into configuring at least one of the cloud computing tools.

By Maciej L

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Feb 5, 2023

This course is as good as its leader. On a meme scale, I would say Noah is chaotic good. He seems exceptionally resourceful and pragmatic. Indeed, he shares many valuable tips to make things work and provides a friendly intro to the CI/CD and cloud topics. However, in doing so, he makes messy environments and provides advice stemming from his practical experience over a more structured rationale e.g. creating an issue to upload images to a repo README. His preference for results over ordered process is just not to my liking.

By Srikanth B

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Jun 28, 2021

Good