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Cloud Application Development Foundations Specialization
IBM

Cloud Application Development Foundations Specialization

Kickstart Your Career as a Cloud Native Developer. Learn the foundational front-end and back-end skills for developing and deploying applications on Cloud.

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Michelle Saltoun
Sachin Jambur
Rav Ahuja

Instructors: Michelle Saltoun

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What you'll learn

  • Define cloud computing and explain its essential characteristics, models, benefits, infrastructure, & emerging trends. Create a cloud account

  • Develop with front-end development languages and tools such as HTML, CSS, Javascript and React  

  • Program applications with back-end development languages and tools such as Node.js  and NoSQL databases

  • Build and deploy applications using Cloud Native methodologies and tools, CI/CD toolchains, and build your portfolio using GitHub

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Specialization - 3 course series

Introduction to Cloud Computing

Course 112 hours4.6 (5,577 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Define cloud computing and explain essential characteristics, history, the business case for cloud, and the emerging technologies enabled by cloud

  • Describe the cloud service models- IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and cloud deployment models- Public, Private, Hybrid; explain cloud infrastructure components

  • Explain emerging Cloud related trends including HybridMulticloud, Microservices, Serverless, Cloud Native, DevOps, and Application Modernization

  • List and describe services of popular cloud platforms including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and others

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Hybrid Multicloud
Category: Devops
Category: Iaas PaaS Saas
Category: Cloud Native

Introduction to Web Development with HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Course 212 hours4.6 (1,940 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Describe the Web Application Development Ecosystem and terminology like front-end developer, back-end, server-side, and full stack.

  • Identify the developer tools and integrated development environments (IDEs) used by web developers. 

  • Create and structure basic web pages using HTML and style them with CSS. 

  • Develop dynamic web pages with interactive features using JavaScript. 

Skills you'll gain

Category: Git (Software)
Category: HTML
Category: Web Development
Category: JavaScript
Category: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Developing Cloud Native Applications

Course 317 hours4.1 (262 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Describe Cloud Native and DevOps concepts and methodologies

  • Build and deploy code to Cloud using DevOps practices, and CI/CD tools

  • Create a Node.js application on IBM Cloud

  • Use REST APIs in your app to store and retrieve data in a NoSQL Cloudant Database

Skills you'll gain

Category: Json
Category: Git (Software)
Category: Cloud Infrastructure
Category: Devops
Category: NoSQL

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Michelle Saltoun
IBM
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