Learning Mule from Scratch - Where to Start?

If you find yourself in a new role and you discover your have to learn about a product - from a company called MuleSoft - called Mule, and an application called AnyPoint Studio, then where do you start?

The first place you might look at is:

https://training.mulesoft.com/

- FAQ on 'MuleSoft Training & Certification'

Also check out this training forum:
http://training.mulesoft.com/forum

There are a number of links here for various different roles. All point to typically expensive IT courses. When you're just starting out, you really don't want to be forking out thousands of dollars without having done something free first.

Good news is that MuleSoft do have some free self-study, so I'd recommend checking this out first before embarking on a paid for course:

https://training.mulesoft.com/category/mulesoftu

- FAQ on 'MuleSoft.U Free Courses'

Especially recommended are the free fundamentals course (two links below depending on whether you need to do Mule 3 or Mule 4):
https://training.mulesoft.com/course/mulesoftu-fundamentals3
https://training.mulesoft.com/course/mulesoftu-fundamentals4

There's also training forums:

https://help.mulesoft.com/s/training-groups

Forums:

https://help.mulesoft.com/s/forum

I'm lucky to have an organization login to Udemy -

https://www.udemy.com/

- and pleased to see some Mule courses on Udemy.com.

There's 4 Mule courses on Udemy. Really you're only going to take three of these courses ('Mule 4' & 'Mule Dataweave 2'). These are the courses:

Mule 4 Indepth : 42 lectures : 13 hours : All Levels

Mule 3 in Depth : 40 lectures : 9 hours : All Levels
Mule Architecture - Integration Solutions : 46 lectures : 12 hours : All Levels

Mule Dataweave 2 in depth : 19 lectures : 5.5 hours : All Levels

What is Mule ESB?
Mule, the runtime engine of Anypoint Platform is a lightweight Java-based enterprise service bus (ESB) and integration platform that allow developers to connect application together quickly and easily, enabling them to exchange data.

What is an Enterprise Service Bus?
Check out the visualization here: https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+a+service+bus&tbm=isch

MuleSoft Certified Developer - Level 1 (Mule 4)
https://training.mulesoft.com/exam/mcd-level1
+ Anypoint Platform Development: Fundamentals (Mule 4) [5 day ILT]
https://training.mulesoft.com/instructor-led-training/apdev-fundamentals4