Technical Guides

EE 547: Cloud & Applied Computing

These guides provide practical, hands-on instruction for technologies used throughout the course. Each guide focuses on essential concepts with working examples you can copy and modify.

HTTP & Web Services

Understanding how web services work and communicate over HTTP.

• HTTP Fundamentals - What HTTP is, how it works, testing with curl
• HTTP Requests with urllib - Making HTTP requests and handling responses in Python
• Serving Static Content with nginx - Web servers, static vs dynamic content, serving files

Data Processing & APIs

Working with structured data from web APIs and processing it in Python.

• JSON Processing with Python - Parsing and building JSON data structures
• XML Parsing with Python - Working with XML data using ElementTree
• ArXiv API Reference - Query syntax, rate limits, and usage patterns

Cloud Services & Infrastructure

Programmatic access to AWS services and container deployment.

• AWS boto3 Essentials - Authentication, common services, error handling
• Docker Basics - Building, running, and managing containers

Machine Learning Tools

Python libraries and techniques for ML model development and deployment.

Additional ML guides will be added as needed for specific assignments