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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Developing Cloud Native Applications by IBM

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About the Course

Do you want to learn about developing applications that are cloud native right from conception to implementation? In this course, you’ll begin with some crucial cloud concepts such as Cloud Native Applications, CNCF and Hybrid Cloud. You will dive into specific tools and techniques for developing cloud native apps. You’ll then learn how to use CLI to develop, test and deploy applications for IBM Cloud with the use of Node.js . You will further use DevOps to maintain application development using Web IDE features, Git repository and Delivery Pipeline. You will familiarize yourself with concepts like REST Architecture, JSON and Watson API. You will also look at two key areas of cloud thinking: modernization and continuous integration/continuous delivery. Throughout this course you will practice with hands-on labs and gain skills with tools used by professionals! Lastly you will complete a final project where you will build your own CI/CD enabled application with a NoSQL database and have a great addition to your portfolio....

Top reviews

AY

Jun 8, 2021

Good course! The instructors just need to fix the final project instructions. It's messing up the application on the CI/CD part. Other than that, it's perfect!

PV

Feb 18, 2021

Coursera become for me as first step towards future in IT industy!!!Thank you very much for this great job done by teachers and all involeved!

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By Fatima a

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Aug 11, 2022

good

By Yuchen X

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Jun 23, 2022

Tedious at first, it seems the only way you could get experience on the process of creating a web app. It's a little bit more complicated than I thought, but I do feel good after completing the final assignment. However the cloud foundry platform is officially being depracated. The exact process would not be helpful anymore, but getting an idea of how everything works is still very valuable.

By Neil C

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Jun 4, 2021

Good course, although I feel some of the concepts could have been explained in a more new-user friendly way. The assessment had some confusing/conflicting requirements, where the steps of the instruction said to do 1 thing, but the assessment asked for something different/in reverse. So it's a little confusing which to do.

By Michal M

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Jul 6, 2021

The labs were designed with incremental complexity and focus on constant reviewing and practice. The voice-over and slides in videos aren't in sync, which was messing with my head at times, but the material itself is fantastic.

By Marta C

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Nov 1, 2021

The course was very informative and overall a good experience. I would say the videos should be led by instructors instead of the somewhat robotic AI as it helps comprehension of the materials.

By Praise E

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Jul 9, 2022

I enjoyed the course but not everybody would be able to take pains to face the challenges. A little bit more explanation of the labs might be of help to someone who is easily discouraged.

By Lester B V

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Feb 22, 2021

The course is very helpful in understanding the development process on the IBM Cloud, although some hands-on lab exercises are not available to perform.

By Merin S

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Jul 12, 2022

Facing a lot of issues while doing the hands on lab. There were many changes in IBM cloud that was not mentioned in the instructions.

By Deleted A

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Feb 15, 2022

Helps you understand how to build cloud apps using the ibm cloud and it's services

By Damilare S

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Aug 1, 2022

Its a very good and well detailed course , a few updates are needed .

By Hitesh K

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Apr 21, 2021

It is a fabulous course for learning cloud concepts.

By Shoaib A

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Jun 30, 2021

amazing experince. course shoud b also hands on.

By David B

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Sep 14, 2022

OI am afraid only 3 stars on balance. The videos and the course work themselves are pretty good for understanding the topic, and the activities progressive (there is quite a lot of 'cut and paste' but I found this did support learning.

Unlike many coursera courses Ive done, there is an active body of students - so assignments come back (peer marked) quite quickly - and the staff team seem to be around and generally get back on problems inside a day or so (weekdays more promptly, naturally!)

However, there are two stars lost, for quite serious issues. Leaving aside the problems with peer marking (I had one assignment returned with zero marks, and no commentary as to why - when I resubmitted exactly the same assignment it passed 19/20!)

However I have to say the IBM Cloud (both used directly, and via the course web front end) left a lot to be desired. For example, I had to repeat the work of the final assignment three times and in the end ended up hacking it, in order to bypass IBM Cloud issues. The problem I had was clearly over a year old (looking at the discussions) and the solution in all that time seems to be ....

"Oh IBMCloud loses cennection in the CI/CD pipeline - just reconnect them."

I lost 8 hours on that!

Well, lesson learned! A CI/CD pipeline that isnt a pipeline because you have to manually intervene in the provisioning each time, is probably more time consuming than just building, testing and deploying manually!

Needless to say, the upside is that we will be finding a more reliable cloud service provider than IBM Cloud!

By Ramesh

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Sep 22, 2023

I have completed 2 courses as of now in coursera, but this course "Developing Cloud Native Applications" is really confusing to follow the steps after the 50% of course as they explaining dashboard and other tools verbally instead of showing it on lab environment or added images in class video. I learnt last 2 courses like that way and it was very good. Lap instructions are not clear enough, sometime following up is hard and i missed few steps and moved to next as i didn't get enough clarity of those from instruction.

By spy84berlin r

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Apr 21, 2021

seriously need to update all the images used in the Labs. Way out of date and more help with resolution of problems within the final Lab

Would it not be in the interest of the tutor to publish all the issues and resolutions with images rather than receive posts about the same issues over and over.

eg. deploy stage needs to be set 64mb to run and pass in toolchain after changes to scripts

thanks

By Jen D

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Oct 11, 2022

I liked stepping through the whole process of making an app, but the instructions need to be updated badly. Cloud foundry is being deprecated and trying to connect to github for the CI/CD in the final project requires making a custom toolchain, whichthey give no instructions for.

By Krislyn D

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May 5, 2022

Better descriptions of what we are doing would really help. I can tell when I graded one assignment that the student didn't make the connections of what we were doing with the instructions given. I got an A but I'm not sure I could replicate what I did on my own.

By Ayodele D

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Sep 21, 2022

Great way to learn the ins and outs of IBM cloud. Building the app though was annoying. If you made a change on the tool change, you had to reset the NLU and the cloudant. very frustrating, but I was able to do this off the top of my head the second go-round.

By Marco S

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Aug 17, 2021

The content itself, is good. Final Lab in Week 7 is a No-Go! When you exactly follow the instructions, you won't get the expected result. I spend a lot of hours, to get things done. In this case, all documents, should be viewed and updated.

By Victoria P

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May 8, 2021

The final lab was very frustrating - instructions have to be updated and kept in sync with grading requirements.

By Victor O

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Aug 19, 2022

lots of the methods highlighted in this course are outdated. I found it difficult navigating some sections.

By Pedro C

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Apr 26, 2021

Course was nice and profitable, any case it needs a severe update of labs and information provided.

By Paul L

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Dec 20, 2022

A lot of technical problems with the IBM cloud and lab tools to finish the course like I wanted

By Oliver E

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Jul 18, 2021

too specific to ibm cloud features and not very clear tasks to fullfill with screenshots.

By Nishant A

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Sep 10, 2021

its confusing course instruction in week 7 was not clear