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With time, the complexity of computational models has significantly increased. Practically, it doesn’t seem convenient to perform all computationally expensive tasks on individual computers. It results in increased dependence and demand for cloud services. This course introduces and navigates through possible career choices in cloud computing.

The course will introduce you to various cloud computing services and different service models. Next, you’ll navigate through different career choices in the field of cloud computing and conclude with the requirements of each career choice. 

By the end of this course, you’ll understand the basics of cloud engineering and the responsibilities of a cloud engineer—planning, designing, monitoring, and managing cloud applications within an organization. This working knowledge will enable you to become a specialized cloud engineer in cloud software engineering and cloud security.

Navigating Cloud Engineering as a Career Path

**Microservices** are an architectural pattern where an application consists of multiple smaller and independently deployable components interacting with each other over APIs.

All the application's databases and modules are deployed over the cloud, and they communicate with each other via APIs. For example, AWS is the broadly adopted cloud platform, and they offer to implement microservices on their platform.

Before the microservice architecture was introduced, enterprise applications worked extensively with the **monolith architecture**. 

With monoliths, everything is tightly coupled into one service. If a process in the application needs to scale, the entire application must scale. As the application grows, this might become problematic.


Learn about what microservices are and how they are different from monolithic architecture.

Brief History of Computing and the Internet

Cloud Computing

Cloud Service Models

Cloud Engineering Career Paths

Requirements for Cloud Engineering Career Paths

Cloud-native Applications

Conclusion

Building Blocks Part-1: Microservices