Cloud Computing

Infrastructure, networking, and the platforms ML actually runs on.

8 articles

  1. 01

    Cloud Computing (1): Fundamentals and Architecture

    An engineering-grade introduction to cloud computing -- service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, FaaS), deployment topologies, …

    36 min
  2. 02

    Cloud Computing (2): Virtualization Technology Deep Dive

    A hands-on guide to virtualization -- hypervisors (VMware, KVM, Xen, Hyper-V), storage and network virtualization, …

    18 min
  3. 03

    Cloud Computing (3): Cloud-Native and Container Technologies

    Why cloud-native exists, what containers actually do at the kernel level, how Kubernetes really works, when service mesh …

    16 min
  4. 04

    Cloud Computing (4): Cloud Storage Systems and Distributed Architecture

    From CAP theorem to S3, HDFS, and Ceph -- a deep tour of distributed storage primitives, consistency, replication, …

    36 min
  5. 05

    Cloud Computing (5): Cloud Network Architecture and SDN

    VPC, load balancers, CDN, SDN/NFV, and BGP -- a deep tour of cloud networking from packet to planet, with the production …

    40 min
  6. 06

    Cloud Computing (6): Cloud Security and Privacy Protection

    A working engineer's guide to cloud security: shared responsibility, IAM that actually scales, encryption at rest / in …

    34 min
  7. 07

    Cloud Computing (7): Cloud Operations and DevOps Practices

    A working DevOps engineer's guide: CI/CD pipelines that gate quality, Terraform for reproducible infrastructure, …

    58 min
  8. 08

    Cloud Computing (8): Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Architecture

    Series finale. Multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud strategy, the 6R migration framework, hybrid networking, cross-cloud data …

    34 min