Application Scalability, Monitoring, and Developer Tools

Overview

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This course dives into the essentials of application scalability, monitoring, and the developer tools that enable seamless integration, deployment, and scaling in the cloud. You’ll learn how to use services such as AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS), Simple Notification Service (SNS), and Kinesis to scale applications effectively. With these tools, you’ll gain the knowledge to handle large-scale data processing and real-time data streams. Throughout the course, we guide you through practical examples of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) using AWS developer tools. You’ll understand how to automate your development pipelines with services like CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline. These tools will help you manage code, build and test applications, and deploy them efficiently. You’ll also dive into the best practices for each tool and the unique ways they integrate to optimize your development workflows. The course also covers essential topics such as authentication and authorization with AWS Cognito. You’ll explore the differences between User Pools and Identity Pools, as well as the fundamentals of Web Identity Federation. By the end of the course, you’ll have a comprehensive understanding of cloud-based developer services, scalability, and security, allowing you to deploy and monitor applications with confidence. This course is designed for developers with prior knowledge of AWS or cloud computing, who want to understand how to scale their applications and implement best practices for continuous integration, deployment, and security. It’s ideal for those who want hands-on experience with AWS developer services and tools.

Syllabus

Scaling Software

In this module, we will dive into various AWS services that support scalability in your applications. You’ll learn about SQS and SNS for managing queues and notifications, and explore Kinesis for handling real-time data streams. By the end of this section, you will have a foundational understanding of how these tools can help scale your software systems efficiently.

Developer Services

In this module, we will explore AWS Developer Services to streamline your software development process. You’ll learn about CI/CD practices and how to set up and use CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to automate version control, building, testing, and deploying applications. By the end, you’ll be equipped to improve your development workflows with these powerful AWS tools.

Authentication and Authorization

In this module, we will focus on AWS Cognito and its capabilities for managing authentication and user access in your applications. You will learn about its two main types of pools—User Pools and Identity Pools—and how they can be used to handle user registration, login, and secure access management. By the end of this section, you’ll be able to leverage Cognito to implement secure and scalable authentication in your apps.