Cloud Developer v2.0.0

Nanodegree key: nd9990

Version: 2.0.0

Locale: en-us

The course is focused on training the learner to achieve critical AWS skills to become an effective cloud developer.

Content

Part 01 : Welcome to the Cloud Developer Nanodegree program

Module 01: Welcome to the Cloud Developer Nanodegree Orientation
- Lesson 01: Cloud Developer Nanodegree program introduction
Module 02: Career Support
- Lesson 01: Get Help with Your Account
  What to do if you have questions about your account or general questions about the program.
  - Concept 01: FAQ
  - Concept 02: Support
- Lesson 02: Knowledge, Community, and Careers
  You are starting a challenging but rewarding journey! Take 5 minutes to read how to get help with projects and content.
Module 03: Careers Services Orientation
- Lesson 01: Nanodegree Career Services
  The Careers team at Udacity is here to help you move forward in your career - whether it's finding a new job, exploring a new career path, or applying new skills to your current job.
  - Concept 01: Access the Career Portal
- Lesson 02: Jobs in Cloud Computing
  To kick off your industry research, learn about different jobs found in Cloud Computing.
  - Concept 01: Cloud Jobs

Part 02 : Cloud Fundamentals

The cloud has become a key enabler for innovation with beneficial features like high availability, unlimited capacity, and on-demand scalability and elasticity. Learn the fundamentals of cloud computing while being introduced to compute power, security, storage, networking, messaging, and management services in the cloud. While learning the fundamentals, you will explore tools and services offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) through interactive hands-on exercises. By the end of the course, you will have deployed your first website to AWS, and you will be prepared to continue your learning journey in the Cloud Developer nanodegree program.

Module 01: Cloud Fundamentals

Part 03 : Full Stack Apps on AWS

Module 01: Engineering Full Stack Apps in the Cloud
- Lesson 01: Cloud Basics
  Learn key terminology and building blocks of a cloud system. Understand the design paradigm of modern cloud applications.
- Lesson 02: Develop
  Implement a process so you write quality code, working alone or on teams. Unit and integration testing, a better way to git, and how to use packaged dependencies.
- Lesson 03: Storing Data in the Cloud
  Set up and start using a cloud-based relational database for storing user data using AWS RDS. Implement a filestore for media like images using AWS S3.
- Lesson 04: Building and Deploying
  Consume cloud data services (database and filestore) within your server application. Deploy your application using AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
- Lesson 05: User Authentication and Security
  Cloud systems come with a new set of challenges to only allow authorized users access to sensitive information. Learn common mistakes and modern techniques for dealing with security.
- Lesson 06: Scaling and Fixing
  Your work is never over. Cloud systems need to be maintained as dependencies are updated and there is more demand for your service. We explore tools and process to minimize growing pains
- Lesson 07: Udagram: Your Own Instagram on AWS
  In this project, you will develop a cloud-based application for uploading and filtering images!
  
  Project Description - Udagram: Your Own Instagram on AWS
  
  Project Rubric - Udagram: Your Own Instagram on AWS
  - Concept 01: Project Overview
Module 02: Career Support
- Lesson 01: Optimize Your GitHub Profile
  Other professionals are collaborating on GitHub and growing their network. Submit your profile to ensure your profile is on par with leaders in your field.
  
  Project Description - Optimize Your GitHub Profile
  
  Project Rubric - Optimize Your GitHub Profile

Part 04 : Monolith to Microservices at Scale

Module 01: Monolith to Microservices at Scale
- Lesson 01: Introduction to Microservices
  Using microservices is both a technical and business decision. In this lesson you will learn about the use cases that caused microservices to become popular.
- Lesson 02: Microservices Design Principles and Best Practices
  When applied correctly, microservice architecture can deliver great business value. In this lesson, we will compare microservices and monoliths and discuss best practices for refactoring.
- Lesson 03: Containers Using Docker
  Applications are often deployed in containers. In this lesson we'll learn why we use containers and how to use Docker to build our applications to be deployed as containers
- Lesson 04: Automating the Application Development Lifecycle
  In this lesson we'll learn about why the industry embraces Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment and how Docker helps streamline the process
- Lesson 05: Orchestration with Kubernetes
  Kubernetes is a powerful tool that is often used to deploy containers. In this lesson we’ll learn about why we would consider using Kubernetes and to deploy our applications
- Lesson 06: Best Practices/Design Patterns for Kubernetes in Production
  In this lesson we'll learn some of the best practices for running your application in Kubernetes including logging, scale, and security
- Lesson 07: Refactor Monolith to Microservices and Deploy
  In this project, you will take an existing application named Udagram and refactor it into a microservice architecture with lean services and deploy it using Kubernetes.
  
  Project Description - Refactor Monolith to Microservices
  
  Project Rubric - Refactor Monolith to Microservices

Part 05 : Develop & Deploy Serverless App

Serverless technologies have become very popular recently because they can increase the speed of development and drastically reduce the cost of running a cloud infrastructure. This course combines the theory of using serverless technologies with the practice of developing a complex serverless application and focuses on learning by doing. You will learn advanced serverless features such as implementing WebSockets and stream processing and learn about serverless best practices throughout the course.

Module 01: Develop & Deploy Serverless App
- Lesson 01: Serverless Introduction
  Introduction to the course, and Introduction to Serverless
- Lesson 02: REST API
  In this lesson, we will cover the development of REST APIL for a group of images, how to store data in DynamoDB and build a web app using React.
- Lesson 03: Serverless Framework
  In this lesson you will be introduced to the framework for Serverless and the various API we will be using.
- Lesson 04: Event Processing
  In this lesson you will learn about event processing using Serverless. We will focus on processing different event types with Lambda functions.
- Lesson 05: Authentication
  In this lesson, we cover authentication and authorization using Serverless. We will cover Authentication, OAuth, Auth0 protocols.
- Lesson 06: Best Practices
  In this lesson, we will cover some best practices with Serverless.
- Lesson 07: Serverless Application
  In this project, you will create a simple TODO application using AWS Lambda and Serverless framework.
  
  Project Description - Serverless Application
  
  Project Rubric - Serverless Application
  - Concept 01: Project Instructions
Module 02: Career Support
- Lesson 01: Take 30 Min to Improve your LinkedIn
  Find your next job or connect with industry peers on LinkedIn. Ensure your profile attracts relevant leads that will grow your professional network.
  
  Project Description - Improve Your LinkedIn Profile
  
  Project Rubric - Improve Your LinkedIn Profile

Part 06 : Capstone

Module 01: Capstone
- Lesson 01: Capstone
  In the capstone project, you’ll build an application of your choice on AWS based on predefined criteria.
  
  Project Description - Capstone
  
  Project Rubric - Capstone
  - Concept 01: Overview
  - Concept 02: Instructions