The Partner

MongoDB: The Developer Data Platform

Operating since 2007, MongoDB is the preeminent developer data platform. It has tens of thousands of customers in over 100 countries, and its database platform has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times. 

  • #1 Most Used modern database
    45K+Active Customers
    140K+Developers join every month

The Challenge

The Power of Hands-on Activities

MongoDB understands the power of hands-on activities. “There’s no better experience than rolling up your sleeves and getting your proverbial hands dirty and immersed with code and a platform! And if we make that experience entertaining whilst doing so, then we’ve a much better opportunity for that experience to stick in the minds of developers.” says Shane McAllister, Lead Developer Advocate (Global) at MongoDB. 

To further that goal, MongoDB used to rely on events.
“Primarily in-person, we ran Developer Days, Hackathons and Workshops, and we could see first hand, the direct impact of our hands-on activities,” says McAllister. “However, given the obvious constraints when trying to scale in-person activities globally, we looked to try to build our own online solutions to address this, but, outside of MongoDB University, nothing seemed to stick, or it required constant upkeep and maintenance and wasn’t scalable.”

The Solution

Building a Quest With Wilco

Wilco’s hands-on developer training platform lets MongoDB conduct hands-on activities at scale over the internet.

The first quest created as part of this partnership is “Atlas, Rise”, which teaches the basics of MongoDB Atlas. In it, the user creates a new cluster, configures the connection string, and accesses the database to read data. Along the way, they explore Atlas's features and gain experience working with a cloud-based NoSQL database.

Following the introduction of "Atlas, Rise", a second quest will teach users how MongoDB integrates into Laravel and how to use the MongoDB native query API.

Embark on a concise journey where you'll master the seamless integration of MongoDB Atlas with PHP and Laravel, equipping you to develop dynamic web applications with modern data storage capabilities.

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The Results

Learn MongoDB by Doing

Having added Wilco's hands-on, lifelike scenarios to its arsenal, MongoDB can bring the effectiveness of in-person events to online communities. By letting users gain experience and learn new concepts through Wilco quests, MongoDB can achieve a greater scale of learning than ever before.

"The Wilco platform allows MongoDB to take the best elements of “learning by doing” out to a wider audience and engage them with tasks and challenges that are both fun and educational. By getting developers to use MongoDB as part of a quest, and dive into our developer data platform, we hope to open the doors to them to consider MongoDB for their next project or workload.

Moving to Wilco, greatly enhanced our ability to have an engaging, immersive, educational and entertaining learning experience globally, and at scale!"
Shane McAllister
Lead Developer Advocate (Global)
MongoDB

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