Certification
Developer:
Associate YCQL Certification
This certification validates both your skills and knowledge.
With a few clicks, you can easily add your digital certificate to your LinkedIn profile.
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Designed for developers, this path starts with distributedSQL, but quickly dives into YCQL, Yugabyte's Cloud Query Language that is inspired by Apache Cassandra. The courses cover a variety of topics including data modeling and query optimization.
Enroll to begin!
UCF100 | Learn about Distributed SQL and why modern, cloud-native applications require a distributed SQL database.
UCF101 | In this introductory course, you will learn about the unique architecture of YugabyteDB as well as the various key features that make YugabyteDB an amazing distributed SQL database.
UCF091 | In this course, you'll discover YugabyteDB Managed, create a free cluster, and connect to it with both YugabyteDB Managed Shell and pgAdmin.
YCQL101 | Discover the language features of YCQL, the benefits of query-driven data modeling, and how secondary indexes can improve YCQL query performance. Hands-on labs are in Gitpod with Jupyter notebooks!
YFTT | Conversation and dialog about engineering and database topics each week, made available as In-Case-You Missed-It (ICYMI) is an ad-free, watch-on-demand, and downloadable library.
Developer:
Associate YCQL Certification
Our student champions endorse the YCQL for Developers learning path, a free offering from Yugabyte University.
What you'll need
Operating System
macOS 10.12+, Ubuntu 16.04+, or Windows+
Chromium web browser
Chrome, Opera, or Microsoft Edge
YugabyteDB Managed sandbox cluster
YugabyteDB Community Slack account
Github account