Foundations of cloud computing for developers

What you'll learn

• Explain the concept of cloud computing
• Briefly understand how computing systems across domains dealt with scale before the cloud
• Briefly recall the recent history of cloud computing, illustrating its evolution
• List some of the enabling technologies in cloud computing, and discuss their significance
• Differentiate cloud service models, such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• Enumerate the different types of clouds, and compare and contrast them
• List some of the common cloud providers and their associated cloud stacks
• Recall popular cloud use case scenarios