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This course comprises fifteen weeks. Each post on this page covers a week's worth of material. The post list (this page) shows a quick preview of the things you need to do each week (module videos, assignments, etc.). Clicking 'More' will take you to the blog post for each module (these posts are intended to replace slides). Ensure you monitor Blackboard for assignment deadlines!

Welcome video [20:03]

Useful links

• Course YouTube Playlist
• Google Cloud
• All Google Codelabs

This module covers everything you need to know to get up and running with Google Cloud for this class.

Module Videos

• Google - What is the cloud? [42:36]
• Welcome to Class! [20:03]
• Plagiarism/Cheating Note [3:48]
• Intro to the Cloud [8:14]
• Term Project Ideas [6:19]
• Cloud Billing [8:24]
• Cloud Computing Costs [14:40]
• Export Billing to BigQuery [12:53]
• Cloud Providers [7:46]
• Lab 1 Overview (Setup / Virtual Machines) [21:31]
• Lab Environments [8:36]
• General Reference for Cloud Tools I Use (Vim, Nano, tmux) [40:40]

This module will introduce you to some of the various technologies that are available to you as part of cloud computing.

Module Videos

• Cloud Shell - Long Running Tasks [6:48]
• Google Colab Demo (VQGAN+CLIP) [6:26]
• Cloud Infrastructure [11:53]
• Using the Cloud Shell Pt. 1/2 [11:38]
• Using the Cloud Shell Pt. 2/2 [16:07]
• Cloud Free Tiers [8:51]
• Editing and Uploading [11:05]

This module will introduce you to the concept of serverless functions and give you practical experience in the various facets of creating them.

Module Videos

• A Google Intro to Cloud Functions [1:37]
• Serverless Functions [14:45]
• Cloud Functions/Storage Buckets Demo [12:13]
• Cloud Functions Authentication Demo [11:59]
• Calling Cloud Functions from Python (with multiprocessing and requests) [7:36]

This module will get you thinking about designing apps in the cloud. We'll cover architecting cloud applications and designing microservices.

Module Videos

• What are cloud applications? [13:33]
• Microservices [11:36]
• App Engine Overview [14:15]
• App Engine Demo (1/2) [10:46]
• App Engine Demo (2/2) [10:58]
• Monolithic-Microlithic Demo Pt 1 [11:31]
• Monolithic-Microlithic Demo Pt 2 [18:19]
• Monolithic-Microlithic Demo Pt 3 [19:01]

This module will get you thinking about taking those cloud apps worldwide.

Module Videos

• Overview of geographic concerns [10:18]
• Load balancing demo (1/2) [10:38]
• Load balancing demo (2/2) [10:59]
• (Google) GCP regions and zones [1:59]

By the end of this module, you'll gain experience with storing information on and around the cloud.

Module Videos

• Cloud Datatypes [16:38]
• Cloud Storage Overview [9:54]
• Cloud Storage / Cloud Shell Demo [8:45]
• Cloud Storage / Cloud Functions / DLP demo (1/2) [15:21]
• Cloud Storage / Cloud Functions / DLP demo (2/2) [16:10]
• Cloud Datastore Demo [13:39]
• Cloud Spanner Demo [10:56]

By the end of this module, you'll gain experience with using APIs in various formats and incarnations.

Module Videos

• APIs / REST / Cloud Endpoints Overview [12:33]
• Python / Flask RESTful calls [11:18]
• Pub/Sub Overview [11:45]
• Pub/Sub Demo [21:08]
• Cloud Endpoints Demo (1/2) [14:50]
• Cloud Endpoints Demo (2/2) [20:19]