Ask HN: Quickest way to learn cloud computing?

Posted by sqlHelp on Monday March 15, 2021 @02:50AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hey HN! I had an idea for a SaaS product and decided to build it myself as a chance to (finally) learn cloud technologies as well. I want to build a simple CRUD web-app where a user can upload information to the cloud and can be retrieved later. I work primarily in C/C++ and Python and previously have built sites using HTML and CSS. I'd like to know how where I can learn the necessary cloud tech to build this basic app so that I can have a basic framework to get up and running.

Thanks a ton HN!

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Re:Ask HN: Quickest way to learn cloud computing? by ArtWomb on Monday March 15, 2021 @08:42AM (#26465358)

Google App Engine can get you up and running in hours

Building a Python 3 App on App Engine

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python3/bui...

When you are ready to scale, check out Codelabs and Qwiklabs for mastery. Best of Luck ;)

https://codelabs.developers.google.com/

https://www.qwiklabs.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Quickest way to learn cloud computing? by brudgers on Monday March 15, 2021 @12:34PM (#26468133)

The quickest way to learn what you need to know is to start building. Then there will be something you need to know to keep going and you learn that and keep going until the next thing you need to know and you learn that...and so on.

Sure later you might face something you need to know and wish you had known earlier because now you need to redo a part or all of your earlier work. That is unavoidable. Doing things wrong is what "learning" means.

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Re:Ask HN: Quickest way to learn cloud computing? by elvynmejia on Monday March 15, 2021 @12:15PM (#26467841)

Try heroku. It's easy to install and get started

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