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Blurb: “The Self-Taught Cloud Computing Engineer is a comprehensive guide to mastering cloud computing concepts by building a broad and deep cloud knowledge base, developing hands-on cloud skills, and achieving professional cloud certifications. Even if you’re a beginner with a basic understanding of computer hardware and software, this book serves as the means to transition into a cloud computing career. Starting with the Amazon cloud, you’ll explore the fundamental AWS cloud services, then progress to advanced AWS cloud services in the domains of data, machine learning, and security. Next, you’ll build proficiency in Microsoft Azure Cloud and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by examining the common attributes of the three clouds while distinguishing their unique features. You’ll further enhance your skills through practical experience on these platforms with real-life cloud project implementations. Finally, you’ll find expert guidance on cloud certifications and career development. By the end of this cloud computing book, you’ll have become a cloud-savvy professional well-versed in AWS, Azure, and GCP, ready to pursue cloud certifications to validate your skills.“** | Blurb: “The Self-Taught Cloud Computing Engineer is a comprehensive guide to mastering cloud computing concepts by building a broad and deep cloud knowledge base, developing hands-on cloud skills, and achieving professional cloud certifications. Even if you’re a beginner with a basic understanding of computer hardware and software, this book serves as the means to transition into a cloud computing career. Starting with the Amazon cloud, you’ll explore the fundamental AWS cloud services, then progress to advanced AWS cloud services in the domains of data, machine learning, and security. Next, you’ll build proficiency in Microsoft Azure Cloud and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by examining the common attributes of the three clouds while distinguishing their unique features. You’ll further enhance your skills through practical experience on these platforms with real-life cloud project implementations. Finally, you’ll find expert guidance on cloud certifications and career development. By the end of this cloud computing book, you’ll have become a cloud-savvy professional well-versed in AWS, Azure, and GCP, ready to pursue cloud certifications to validate your skills.“** | ||
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I liked that the information I got was things that I did not know, and it broadened my understanding of the platform. Though I would have liked to follow along, I’d rather spend my time learning with a provider that does not want my credit-card details. The explanations were clear enough that I could answer all the questions at the end of chapter one, without practical. ** | I liked that the information I got was things that I did not know, and it broadened my understanding of the platform. Though I would have liked to follow along, I’d rather spend my time learning with a provider that does not want my credit-card details. The explanations were clear enough that I could answer all the questions at the end of chapter one, without practical. ** | ||
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+ | Il y a quelque chose que je dois aborder en premier. Bien que j’aie lu la première partie du livre, je ne peux pas vraiment le commenter en profondeur car je ne sais presque rien des services cloud d’Amazon, et il n’y a AUCUNE RAISON que je leur donne les détails de ma carte de crédit pour essayer et apprendre sur leur plateforme. Ils doivent fournir une plateforme d’apprentissage s’ils veulent que les gens apprennent. | ||
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+ | La version TL;DR : le livre vous apprend pas mal de choses, mais certaines parties semblent générées par l’IA et vous devez vraiment* faire attention aux acronymes. L’ensemble est un peu un méli-mélo ; si vous n’avez jamais vu les interfaces « cloud » auparavant, vous pourriez avoir des difficultés. Si les écrits « à la con » générés par l’IA vous font bondir (pas la partie factuelle), je vous suggère de ne pas lire ce livre. | ||
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+ | J'ai aimé que les informations que j'ai obtenues soient des choses que je ne connaissais pas et cela a élargi ma compréhension de la plateforme. Bien que j' | ||
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**Chapter two was cloud storage services, and covered things I had not heard of before, which was really neat. Snowball, snowcone and snowmobile, weird names to be sure, but here some of the reading felt like marketing bs instead of teaching, but, to be fair, it was really minimal. I fell over some questions at the end, but that had more to do with English not being my first language than bad explanations in the chapter. The screen shots presented were up-to-date, even considering that Amazon likes changing the layouts. | **Chapter two was cloud storage services, and covered things I had not heard of before, which was really neat. Snowball, snowcone and snowmobile, weird names to be sure, but here some of the reading felt like marketing bs instead of teaching, but, to be fair, it was really minimal. I fell over some questions at the end, but that had more to do with English not being my first language than bad explanations in the chapter. The screen shots presented were up-to-date, even considering that Amazon likes changing the layouts. | ||
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Configure Stargate or Relational Database service 1 and salt for subnet1... XD** | Configure Stargate or Relational Database service 1 and salt for subnet1... XD** | ||
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+ | Le deuxième chapitre portait sur les services de stockage dans le cloud et couvrait des choses dont je n’avais jamais entendu parler auparavant, ce qui était vraiment intéressant. Snowball, snowcone et snowmobile, des noms bizarres, certes, mais ici, certains passages ressemblaient à des conneries de marketing plutôt qu’à de l’enseignement ; mais, pour être honnête, c’était vraiment minime. J’ai trébuché sur certaines questions à la fin, mais cela avait plus à voir avec le fait que l’anglais n’est pas ma langue maternelle qu’avec les mauvaises explications du chapitre. Les captures d’écran présentées étaient à jour, même si l’on considère qu’Amazon aime changer les mises en page. | ||
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+ | Le troisième chapitre m’a emmené du côté du réseau d’AWS, avec des choses comme VPC et CDN. Au début, cela ressemblait plus à un segment sponsorisé qu’à un livre pratique avec des phrases comme : « Efficacité en termes de temps et de coûts : les VPC Amazon sont créés sans frais. Comme ils sont virtuels, vous pouvez disposer de VPC et de sous-réseaux à la volée et réduire le coût de votre infrastructure réseau. » Comme c' | ||
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+ | Le chapitre quatre m'a emmené dans l' | ||
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+ | Configurer le service Stargate ou Relational Database 1 et saler pour le sous-réseau 1... XD | ||
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**Chapter five moved into Amazon data analytics services, something else I was not familiar with, so I was looking forward to it. Yep big data is where they usually make back their money tenfold, once they have all your data and host it cheaply to attract your business. Here is where the cow part of ‘cash cow’ comes in, where you are milked. Again I was hit with marketing bs instead of teaching, trying to play off how “cost effective” it is, when in reality, it is everything but. Then, in the security line, we are given compliance, as a reason or feature? As I said before, this book makes my AI senses tingle like few others. Thereafter, everything is laid out in a very readable and understandable way with some images thrown in that make you go oh... A proper meat-and-potatoes section, that is nice and dense, and you may need to read a paragraph more than once. | **Chapter five moved into Amazon data analytics services, something else I was not familiar with, so I was looking forward to it. Yep big data is where they usually make back their money tenfold, once they have all your data and host it cheaply to attract your business. Here is where the cow part of ‘cash cow’ comes in, where you are milked. Again I was hit with marketing bs instead of teaching, trying to play off how “cost effective” it is, when in reality, it is everything but. Then, in the security line, we are given compliance, as a reason or feature? As I said before, this book makes my AI senses tingle like few others. Thereafter, everything is laid out in a very readable and understandable way with some images thrown in that make you go oh... A proper meat-and-potatoes section, that is nice and dense, and you may need to read a paragraph more than once. | ||
Chapter six is machine-learning; | Chapter six is machine-learning; | ||
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+ | Le chapitre cinq aborde les services d’analyse de données d’Amazon, un domaine que je ne connaissais pas encore, et que j’attendais donc avec impatience. Oui, le big data est le domaine dans lequel ils récupèrent généralement dix fois leur argent, une fois qu’ils ont toutes vos données et les hébergent à moindre coût pour attirer votre entreprise. C’est ici qu’intervient la partie vache de « vache à lait », où vous êtes trait. Encore une fois, j’ai été frappé par des conneries de marketing au lieu d’un enseignement, | ||
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+ | Le chapitre six porte sur l’apprentissage automatique ; ici, l’accent du livre change et vous pouvez voir que c’est là que réside l’intérêt de l’auteur. C'est littéralement comme si deux personnes avaient écrit ce livre. Pourtant, il y a toujours cette façon d' | ||
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**So here I am continuing the book on a Saturday, as I could not even... :). I want to read part two of the book, but my FOMO will not allow me to skip part one. Chapter seven is Amazon Cloud security services, and honestly, it does not differ from other providers as far as I can tell. What I liked about this section, is that there were sections where you made mistakes and fixed those mistakes, like you would in the real world. The explanations are clear, but I would have liked maybe a few red rectangles to understand where the author is talking about, like: “Next Amazon S3 noticed that the requested object was encrypted.” <- like how do you, and more importantly me, know that? (Yes I know most stuff is encrypted by default). There were also a few times I went ‘huh’ again, when you get jumped with: “the third A in amazon AAA” and I’m like everything in Amazon starts with bloody ‘A’, so I look back a few paragraphs and I do not see this supposed ‘AAA’. I go back to the beginning of the chapter, looking for ‘AAA’ and not finding it. This was my other peeve with this book. It is supposedly for “self-teaching”, | **So here I am continuing the book on a Saturday, as I could not even... :). I want to read part two of the book, but my FOMO will not allow me to skip part one. Chapter seven is Amazon Cloud security services, and honestly, it does not differ from other providers as far as I can tell. What I liked about this section, is that there were sections where you made mistakes and fixed those mistakes, like you would in the real world. The explanations are clear, but I would have liked maybe a few red rectangles to understand where the author is talking about, like: “Next Amazon S3 noticed that the requested object was encrypted.” <- like how do you, and more importantly me, know that? (Yes I know most stuff is encrypted by default). There were also a few times I went ‘huh’ again, when you get jumped with: “the third A in amazon AAA” and I’m like everything in Amazon starts with bloody ‘A’, so I look back a few paragraphs and I do not see this supposed ‘AAA’. I go back to the beginning of the chapter, looking for ‘AAA’ and not finding it. This was my other peeve with this book. It is supposedly for “self-teaching”, | ||
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The author immediately lets you know that he will be comparing GCP to AWS. This is great if you know one and not the other. Off the bat, I would have liked it if he used the GCP interface and linked what he was showing to where it is. While the chapter does its best to mirror the AWS side of things, some things are mentioned once, but never dived into. This would have been a great segue into gsutil, something I really need to allocate time to. ** | The author immediately lets you know that he will be comparing GCP to AWS. This is great if you know one and not the other. Off the bat, I would have liked it if he used the GCP interface and linked what he was showing to where it is. While the chapter does its best to mirror the AWS side of things, some things are mentioned once, but never dived into. This would have been a great segue into gsutil, something I really need to allocate time to. ** | ||
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+ | Ainsi, me voilà en train de continuer le livre un samedi, alors que je ne pouvais même pas... :). Je veux lire la deuxième partie du livre, mais ma peur de rater quelque chose ne me permet pas de sauter la première. Le chapitre sept porte sur les services de sécurité d' | ||
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+ | Deuxième partie, GCP. | ||
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+ | L’auteur vous fait immédiatement savoir qu’il va comparer GCP à AWS. C’est génial si vous connaissez l’un et pas l’autre. D’emblée, | ||
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**Just like that, we are into chapter nine, cloud databases and big data services. (Not storage services, to mirror part one.) Immediately we hit cloudSQL, and we are shown how to create a MySQL db via the Google cloud console. However, here you are not shown where it hides, like the author did for AWS. (I look out for it as it is something I remember when I was totally green, where is the cloud console?) We are then introduced to cloud spanner and cloud firestone. (Which I have never used, so I was all ears ... or make that eyes.) Using cloud run, we get to implement something. Awesome! You get to use the bucket you created earlier, making the learning feel engaging. Yip, my hot chocolate started getting cold by the time I was reading this. We move into Google’s moneymaker Bigtable for an overview. Here the crappy marketing writing is absent, not telling you how much money you save. The author covers each subdomain with its own overview so you can get to grips with the terms. | **Just like that, we are into chapter nine, cloud databases and big data services. (Not storage services, to mirror part one.) Immediately we hit cloudSQL, and we are shown how to create a MySQL db via the Google cloud console. However, here you are not shown where it hides, like the author did for AWS. (I look out for it as it is something I remember when I was totally green, where is the cloud console?) We are then introduced to cloud spanner and cloud firestone. (Which I have never used, so I was all ears ... or make that eyes.) Using cloud run, we get to implement something. Awesome! You get to use the bucket you created earlier, making the learning feel engaging. Yip, my hot chocolate started getting cold by the time I was reading this. We move into Google’s moneymaker Bigtable for an overview. Here the crappy marketing writing is absent, not telling you how much money you save. The author covers each subdomain with its own overview so you can get to grips with the terms. | ||
We then get to implement our own pipeline. Exciting stuff! A whole lab on just what I wanted. Before the end-of-the-chapter questions, we get a few lines on BI (Looker) and are told to go read up on it online. Again you can answer “A” to all questions and pass the test, just like in part one. ** | We then get to implement our own pipeline. Exciting stuff! A whole lab on just what I wanted. Before the end-of-the-chapter questions, we get a few lines on BI (Looker) and are told to go read up on it online. Again you can answer “A” to all questions and pass the test, just like in part one. ** | ||
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+ | Et voilà, nous entrons dans le chapitre neuf, les bases de données cloud et les services de big data. (Pas les services de stockage, pour faire écho à la première partie.) Nous arrivons immédiatement à cloudSQL, et on nous montre comment créer une base de données MySQL via la console cloud de Google. Cependant, ici, on ne vous montre pas où elle se cache, comme l' | ||
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+ | Nous pouvons ensuite mettre en œuvre notre propre pipeline. Des trucs passionnants ! Un laboratoire complet sur exactement ce que je voulais. Avant les questions de fin de chapitre, on nous donne quelques lignes sur le BI (Looker) et on nous dit d' | ||
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**Chapter ten has us looking at AI services. Google has the Vertex AI suite, something else I have not looked into before. Here the author does what he did in the previous chapter and gives an overview and breaks it down into manageable chunks. As I am not familiar with it, I can only compare it to previous chapters, and again it feels like the author’s passion is here. It feels better explained than any of the previous chapters. | **Chapter ten has us looking at AI services. Google has the Vertex AI suite, something else I have not looked into before. Here the author does what he did in the previous chapter and gives an overview and breaks it down into manageable chunks. As I am not familiar with it, I can only compare it to previous chapters, and again it feels like the author’s passion is here. It feels better explained than any of the previous chapters. | ||
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I hope I have given you an idea of what the book is like. If you would like to give it a skip or pick it up, the link is in the article. Honestly, I don’t think it is worth the asking price of $50 (almost $1200 here, I can get four other books on the topic for that price.)** | I hope I have given you an idea of what the book is like. If you would like to give it a skip or pick it up, the link is in the article. Honestly, I don’t think it is worth the asking price of $50 (almost $1200 here, I can get four other books on the topic for that price.)** | ||
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+ | Le chapitre dix nous amène à nous intéresser aux services d’IA. Google propose la suite Vertex AI, un autre domaine que je n’ai pas encore abordé. Ici, l’auteur fait ce qu’il a fait dans le chapitre précédent et donne un aperçu en le décomposant en morceaux gérables. Comme je ne le connais pas bien, je ne peux que le comparer aux chapitres précédents et, encore une fois, j’ai l’impression que la passion de l’auteur est ici. Il est, semble-t-il, | ||
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