Never heard of Cloud Academy. Is this the codecademy of cloud services? Unlike codecademy you seem to have to pay for this so maybe it's higher quality content. Can any users give me some info on it?
Stefano here, CEO of CloudAcademy.com, thank you for your comment!
Yes, similar to the concept of Codecademy, but totally focused on cloud computing technologies. Actually in CloudAcademy.com you can test your skills on cloud computing platforms and technologies (AWS, Google etc.) and learn with courses and learning explanations.
Our system is designed around our CloudRank: if you try our quizzes (https://cloudacademy.com/cloud-computing-learning-quizzes/) you will see that we are testing you with a question and right after we show a small learning explanation. Every time you answer you increase or decrease your CloudRank.
We are transitioning to a freemium model, right now all the courses and questions are free and you'll always have a free account to get access to a good number of them.
I agree. We are seeing more of our customers at Cloud 66 (http://www.cloud66.com) move to multiple cloud apps for reasons like DR or data center location.
Yes, definitely. We are adding new questions and learning materials every week and we'll soon have a roadmap to get notified about new courses/learnings.
Requests and comments about courses are very welcome! We started with AWS more than 1 year ago and we are now expanding with Google, Azure, Docker and other cloud technologies.
I like how they took a simple use case and were able to show the key concepts of designing stuff with HA as a priority.
I'd have like to see some hints about security too, that would have been a nice addition
Good starting point. I think it would be great (perhaps PPallemberg agrees) to have some advanced stuff as well - that's the hardest to understand well.
Mods have been doing this lately. There's been a lot of grumbling and discussion about transparency from Mod's and auto-admin actions, like show something that makes it obvious an admin action was taken or show the original title before the change somewhere.
Regarding titles specifically -- a change has the power to destroy a thread and drop it from the front page almost instantly.
Yes, we have a dedicated engineer in our team that is working on them. We are using our own technology to build and serve them. There is a bunch of them ready to be published, always on AWS for now.
Hi everyone, Stefano here from CloudAcademy.com. Just wanted to say that right now everything is for FREE. We are switching to a freemium model in a few weeks.
Very nice comment, thank you. Look my opinion is that cloud computing is really an important skill that you need in your resume, and if you take a look at 90% of technical job positions today you'll find that they cite AWS skills when they speak about cloud architect, system administrator and even developer position.
The reason is quite simple, AWS is still the leader in the public cloud market and we have thousands of members that are looking for training to pass the certifications (actually we have a dedicated product called CloudCareer for AWS for that).
You're right, they are changing very fast but that's part of the tech world and definitely something that we have already saw for other platforms.
Think about all the companies like Trendmicro or Reverbed that are building product for AWS or Google or Azure, on top of these platforms. Having an AWS certification is really the first goal there and the first need for millions of companies. The same is going to happen with Google Cloud, Azure and so on.
For CloudAcademy.com we have a great challenge about this point: we are developing a technology to keep our content automatically updated with the help of the community and of our algorithms.
I have a technical question (don't know if this is the rigth place to ask): the architecture is clear to me now.
But which is the related best practice to deploy my app (stored in a git/github repo) in such a place? I mean in order to have it in all the different EC2 instances sped-up by the load-balancer.
At the moment on my architecture I use a queue system and a pull script in every machine.
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My understanding is that users are required to pay; why don't you offer a limited access for free, say for the next 24 hours?
I'm sure that you would benefit from such feedback.
Comments and feedback about courses and questions are very welcome! thanks!
Yes, similar to the concept of Codecademy, but totally focused on cloud computing technologies. Actually in CloudAcademy.com you can test your skills on cloud computing platforms and technologies (AWS, Google etc.) and learn with courses and learning explanations.
Our system is designed around our CloudRank: if you try our quizzes (https://cloudacademy.com/cloud-computing-learning-quizzes/) you will see that we are testing you with a question and right after we show a small learning explanation. Every time you answer you increase or decrease your CloudRank.
We are transitioning to a freemium model, right now all the courses and questions are free and you'll always have a free account to get access to a good number of them.
Stefano
Requests and comments about courses are very welcome! We started with AWS more than 1 year ago and we are now expanding with Google, Azure, Docker and other cloud technologies.
Thanks!
Regarding titles specifically -- a change has the power to destroy a thread and drop it from the front page almost instantly.
Thank you!
Thank you!
The reason is quite simple, AWS is still the leader in the public cloud market and we have thousands of members that are looking for training to pass the certifications (actually we have a dedicated product called CloudCareer for AWS for that).
You're right, they are changing very fast but that's part of the tech world and definitely something that we have already saw for other platforms.
Think about all the companies like Trendmicro or Reverbed that are building product for AWS or Google or Azure, on top of these platforms. Having an AWS certification is really the first goal there and the first need for millions of companies. The same is going to happen with Google Cloud, Azure and so on.
For CloudAcademy.com we have a great challenge about this point: we are developing a technology to keep our content automatically updated with the help of the community and of our algorithms.
Stefano
I have a technical question (don't know if this is the rigth place to ask): the architecture is clear to me now. But which is the related best practice to deploy my app (stored in a git/github repo) in such a place? I mean in order to have it in all the different EC2 instances sped-up by the load-balancer.
At the moment on my architecture I use a queue system and a pull script in every machine.