What is MuleSoft & How to Get Started with MuleSoft?

Shubham MaskeShubham Maske
5 min read
  • What is MuleSoft?

  • Components of MuleSoft

  • Official Resources/Training

  • Online Udemy/Youtube Resources

  • Certification Exam

  • Community

  • Summary

What is MuleSoft?

MuleSoft is a vendor that provides an integration platform to help businesses connect data, applications and devices across on-premises and cloud computing environments.

The company's platform, called Anypoint Platform, includes various tools to develop, manage and test application programming interfaces (APIs), which support these connections.

MuleSoft, in May 2018, was acquired by Salesforce, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider. Salesforce now uses MuleSoft technology as part of its Salesforce Integration Cloud.


Components of MuleSoft

MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform offers several tools and services, including the following:

  • API Designer is a web-based, graphical tool that a developer can use to design and document an API, as well as share that design with team members. A developer can also choose to reuse specific components of an API, such as a security schema.

  • API Manager is an interface through which a developer can manage APIs, as well as secure them via an API gateway. With this component of the Anypoint platform, it's possible to control user access to APIs, ensure secure connections to back-end data sources and create policies around API calls and throttling.

  • Anypoint Studio is a graphical, Java-based design environment that a developer can use to deploy APIs to on-premises and cloud environments. Studio also includes features to map, build, edit and debug data integrations.

  • Anypoint Connectors are a set of built-in connectors that a developer can use to integrate applications with thousands of third-party REST and SOAP.

  • Anypoint Analytics is an analytics tool to track API metrics, such as performance and usage. A developer can use this tool to create custom charts and dashboards to visualize API performance, as well as identify the root cause of any performance issues.

  • Anypoint Runtime Manager is a central console from which a developer can provision and monitor all resources deployed on the Anypoint Platform across hybrid cloud architectures.

  • Anypoint Exchange is a central hub that a development team can use to store and access APIs, templates, connectors, documentation and other resources.

  • Anypoint Monitoring is a dashboard that helps a development team monitor application health.

  • Anypoint Visualizer is a graphical tool to map APIs and their dependencies in real-time.

  • CloudHub is a multi-tenant integration platform as a service ( iPaaS ) offering. CloudHub is offered as a managed service, which means a development team does not need to install or operate any hardware or software to use it.


Official Resources/Training

If you want to learn MuleSoft then there is no better place than the official Mulesoft Training Portal.

MuleSoft Offers both Paid and Free courses on their training portal.MuleSoft offer paid Instructor-led course and free self-paced courses as well.

For someone who is just getting started with Mulesoft, I would recommend the Getting Started with Anypoint Platform self-paced course. This introductory course is for anyone who wants to get hands-on experience learning about the platform and how to use it to discover, design, build, deploy, manage, and govern APIs. You will not write any code in this course.

Once you are familiar with the Anypoint Platform and MuleSoft, then you can go with Anypoint Platform Development: Fundamentals. This is also a self-paced course which will prepare you for the MuleSoft Certified Developer - Level 1 Certification Exam.


Online Udemy/Youtube Resources

There are multiple Courses available on Youtube and Udemy from where you can learn. I am sharing a few resources which followed during my MCD-L1 exam preparation journey.

MuleSoft-TechZone: This is the best channel for absolute beginners. In this playlist, you will learn MuleSoft from an absolute beginner level. All the concepts are explained in layman's terms with easy-to-understand examples.

Mule Technology Academy - Zero To Hero: This channel also contains videos of different connectors and concepts on Mulesoft with proper demos and explanations.

MuleSoft (Mule4) for Beginners: This is also a noteworthy mention, this course covers all the basic connectors, practical demos, and best practices in MuleSoft.This course has been designed for absolute beginners so if you are planning to get started you can consider this Udemy course as well. Also, it covers the interview questions which might get asked in real-time interviews.

MuleSoft Videos: Lastly the official youtube of MuleSoft, here you will get all the videos about the latest Products, best practices and easy-to-understand tutorials on MuleSoft.


Certification Exam

After completing Anypoint Platform Development: Fundamentals you can register for the MuleSoft Certified Developer - Level 1 free of charge and appear for the certification exam.

For MuleSoft Certified Developer - Level 1 first attempt is free and for 2nd attempt, you have to pay 50% of the registration charges.

Mulesoft offers multiple certifications which you can explore as per your area of interest.

Check this link for more details about the exam.


Community

If you get stuck while learning MuleSoft or need help with some problems you can get help from the Mulesoft Community

Here you can find questions, articles and tutorials shared by other MuleSoft learners and working professionals. You can post your questions and easily get help from talented people all over the world.


Summary

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Shubham Maske
Shubham Maske

I am Shubham Maske , currently working as a Software Developer working on Mulesoft and Salesforce. Here to share my experience and learnings.