Introduction to Cloud Computing

Michael Wufka holds a computer science degree from the University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany, and a PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He also worked as an IT consultant for a large consulting company for four years, mostly on medium to large systems integration projects using Java. His main research interests moved from agile software development to cloud computing, which is arguably a very agile way to deploy applications. Michael has been named a Google Cloud Faculty Expert and Champion innovator, reflecting his passion for teaching students about and with cloud computing, especially using the Google Cloud Platform. Massimo Canonico is an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy). His research interests lie in different areas, Concerning the Distributed Computing systems, his current research activity is focused on cloud computing with emphasis on performance and energy efficient resource management. He has also worked on fault tolerant scheduling algorithms and efficient overlay-based data transfer techniques on various families of distributed systems (in particular, Grid Computing systems). Since 2020, he has been selected as a member of the Google Cloud Faculty Expert Group and as AWS Educate Cloud Ambassador by Amazon. Since 2024 he has been selected as Google Developer Expert. He is the author of more than 50 scientific papers and principal investigator of many research projects related to distributed systems. He is also a lecturer of courses related to cloud computing since 2006.