- [Instructor] All right, let's get started
with our cloud computing architecture journey.
So a few things that are important here
is number one, this is a matter of planning.
When you get right down to it architecture
is not necessarily you picking and choosing
different technologies.
It's really you understanding your requirements
and then backing the appropriate technologies
into those requirements, and then putting them together
into a long-term plan.
You need to work from big to little.
This is about understanding architecture in the wide.
In other words, the meta architecture,
what we're looking to do in general, on-going,
as well as architecture in the narrow,
the technology we're picking.
And ultimately, planning determines the success
or failure of your cloud implementation.
So keep in mind that what you need to get out of this course
is the fact that this is a planning exercise.
That this is about understanding
how the requirements back into a meta architecture,
back into a micro architectures,
and back into the technology solution.
So pulling things together.
Could-based systems have lots of things
that need to be understood about them.
Number one, the requirements, both business and technical.
Number two, the technology.
What we're going to leverage to make things occur,
or basically solve the problem.
Number three, security, or how we're going
to secure the systems.
Number four, governance, or how we're going
to put guardrails around utilization of the system.
How we're going to do DevOps,
development and operations, and make that work
with cloud-based systems.
Training.
Applications, or the ability to understand
what application workloads we're going to run on the cloud.
And then what kind of data we're going to deal with.
So there are three courses
in this particular series of videos.
We're focusing in this course in the Core Concepts.
We're going to provide you with a rudimentary understanding
of what cloud architecture is,
and how you need to think about it.
And really kind of set the stage,
or set the mindset, for you moving on to the other courses.
The next course is Design Decisions,
which is going to provide you with an intermediate step,
or the ability to understand different technology patterns
you can leverage within architecture.
So understanding what architecture is,
then understanding what technology patterns are there,
such as serverless and containers.
And then finally, Advanced Concepts.
Your ability to, in essence, leverage your various systems
to bring them together, to allow them to create
the final target architecture.
This includes the meta architecture,
the micro architectures, the technical services,
the cloud-based services, the cloud providers,
everything you need to, in essence,
define what your solution is.