Mulesoft Champions- an experience

THE CHAMPIONS PROGRAM
The Champions program conducted by MuleSoft is all about developer's personal skills that just need a platform to showcase them. And yes! this is MuleSoft who has become so popular among developers in a very in a short span of time. True developers need a platform where they can at least get a glimpse of new technology and may go in deep later onwards and through free online training program MuleSoft has won the choice of developers working in Integration domain.

When I joined the training program the forums section was not very much in focus for developers. That was actually a different platform where developers can share your problem and get there responses. But within a couple of months the entire system was upgraded with brand new look and feel with rewards program. I also signed up for the program and started participating being an active member. Apart from variety of rewards, I've been benefited in several ways being a developer:

1. Knowledge sharing.
2. Knowledge grooming.
3. Satisfaction by helping other problems.
4. Getting info about new issues in forums.
5. Getting info about MuleSoft presence worldwide.
6. Free certification voucher for Associate Dev exam.
7. I got reputation my organization after successfully exam completion.

I'VE LEARNED ABOUT
I have learnt a lot in context to middleware and integration. Below are the points especially I wouild like to specify:

1. What is integration and how it solves problem of systems connectivity for and enterprise.
2. Mulesoft as middleware that acts as a bridge between an operating system or database and applications, especially on a network. 
3. It provides a visual design environment for enterprise needs.
4. API lead connecitivity through APIs in enterprise applications.
5. Working with a new IDE, Anypoint Studio for developemt process.
6. Various components of IDE- transformars, connectors, Scopes, components, filters, teransformers, Flow control, error handling API designing through RAML, routers etc.
7. Declararative/tool based development.
8. Cloudhub and deployment of mulesoft applications on cloudhub, monitoring & control.

THE PEOPLE I'VE MEET THROUGH PROGRAM

It was July 2015, when I came to know about mulesoft summer conference to be conducted in India, especially in our city Gurgaon in the same month. Wow! that was a great opportunity for us to meet the people who are the creator of this amazing product. So finally our team had done the registration to reserve our seats. The day came and we reached at venue 'The Leela, Ambiance Island, Gurgaon'. Our entire team's momentum was in full swing to see the glimpse. We shown our identity and entered the conference room. The arrangement was fantasticand we can see a lot of mule swags everywhere. The conference started and we came to know the actual picture that why mulesoft is going to be the next leader in integration projects. We came to know that MuleSoft technology has also been used in 'AADHAAR' project. Also 'UBER' (the taxi service) has been transforming the transportation with the help of API lead connectivity of mulesoft. There was a lot of people who came to attend the session and we get introduced to them. Below are the people we meet: 

From Mulesoft:

Stu Garrow - MuleSoft Enterprise Solutions

Will Bosma - Drive business agility with API-led Connectivity

Brad Drysdale - Transform your Business with API-led Connectivity!

Partner teams: 

The Wishworks team.

The Springpeople team.

After the closure of the session, we had delicious networking lunch and we took Mulesoft Swags as well!

I would say that this is an- 

"Amazing, rewarding and enthusiastic program for true developers!"