1st Christchurch, NZ MuleSoft Meetup

Date: 21st August 2017

Venue: Christchurch City Council, Function Room, (Entrance from Arts Center)

Today’s meet up starts at 5.30p.m. the turn up is great, we have a mixture of people from different roles, from students, to developers, testers, team leaders and managers, a nice mixture of crowd to bring in different concerns towards the subject of systems integration. Thank you again to all the participants for taking the time to attend this event.

As I have mentioned I try to run each meet up at least 3 topics, having two non-development related topics about MuleSoft and 1 development related topic.This is so that the MuleSoft meetup stays relevant to both non-development and development personnel who interacts with MuleSoft daily.

We started the event by talking about the MuleSoft training curriculum, the following link will take you the the slides I have used for our first discussion topic.

• MuleSoft training curriculum link (slides)

As I have mentioned if you are starting a development team or if you are evaluating MuleSoft as an integration product/framework, there are a few free trainings that could start you right off, they are accessible via the following link.

• MuleSoft Free training (updated with the recent crow release)

• Intro to Anypoint Studio Tutorial

• MuleSoft.U Getting Started with Anypoint Platform - UPDATED for Crowd release

• MuleSoft.U Development Fundamentals - UPDATED for Crowd release

Next we have talked about the Champion program that is a gamification of developers community the slide deck that I have used for this presentation is accessible via the following link.

• Using the Champion Program to Further your MuleSoft Training & Certification

The final topic we talked about MUNIT testing as a tool that is flexible enough for you to use it from end-to-end testing, service testing and unit testing. The slides that I have used for this session is accessible via the following link.

• Munit a framework that is suitable for all End-to-End, Service and Unit Testing (slides)

If you want more details about MUNIT mocking, you can read it from an article that I have written at the following link.

• Mocking outbound endpoint in MUNIT testing (making service testing possible)

Thank you again for taking the time to attend this meet up. Look forward to seeing you for the next meetup. I am reachable via the following link

• My contact

More pictures from the meetup can be obtained from the following link.

• Meetup Pictures

Mule-soft Champions Web Site

After passing my MuleSoft certified associate certification I was immediately subscribed to the “Champions Programme”. I didn’t know what it was about so I ignored the registration mail and didn’t really pay attention to it for 1 to 2 weeks.

One evening as I open up the mail, I clicked on the link and was brought immediately to the “Champions Website”, before I talk about champions web site, the first time I experience developing integration in MuleSoft is via the first “MuleSoft certified associate” training, and once I have finished the training I am hooked to MuleSoft I want to know more, I want to work on the product, I want to create stuff, roll my sleves up and start building solution, making changes that will help people, businesses and organizations, I find that I need to know more about MuleSoft development.

So as I head into the champions web site I found that Mulesoft have gamified the whole learning continuous community connection and learning process for MuleSoft and I like it.

At the point of this writing generally the web site has 3 navigational section that is worth our attention. They are namely

1. My Challenges – Where you can choose and pick what challenges you want to take on, and if you successfully complete the challenge, you will then accumulate points, the points that you have accumulated will then allow you to redeem gifts at the reward stores.
2. Discussions – Is where you can post and view other mulesoft developer’s post on a topic of discussion, you can answer the discussion or ask question about a discussion.
3. Reward Store- This is the beauty of the whole gamification, here is where you can redeem stuff with the points you have accumulated from winning the challenges.

On the left hand pane of the champions web site you will also see a “Leaderboard” where it shows who is leading in terms of points accumulation.

Its not just all work and no play there are challenges that are fun and has nothing to do with MuleSoft at all, these are the challenges where you can do when you need a break. This whole web site is addictive.

And the most noble thing of all about the champions web site is that it allows the players to get a shot at higher education, it allows the mulesoft development community to persue futher education in development of mulesoft solution.

If you navigate into the rewards section there are many type of rewards, you have the mulesoft t-shirts, the max mule soft toy, the storm trooper helmet and the most Nobel of all the gift is the chance to a higher education, which I am aiming for, as I want to know more about the MuleSoft product.

There are so many strategy to get a complete education into MuleSoft to continue your persuit of mastering the development skills, to accumulate the points you can answer question on stack overflow or speak at a mulesoft event.

Or you could create tutorial videos about mulesoft development.

You could publish a blog about mulesoft , that will get you 1000 points do it 15 times and you will get your education ticket, but what you didn’t realize is tha writing a blog, talking about it and recording videos are chances for you to review and revised what you already know about the product, and it helps you absorb even more knowledge when you go for the actual course.

This is the most brilliant idea to get the MuleSoft development community together, on top of it being a fantastic integration product this Champions website is just here to glue all of use mule devs together to learn, discuss and innovate to make it an even better product.

Its Brilliant !!!!