Technical Training Paths

Start with the Foundations course, then choose the role-based path that fits where you want to concentrate your efforts.

Applications Developer Foundations Course

This course is intended for everyone new to the Vantiq platform. Course covers platform orientation and the core concepts every partner needs before specializing.

Architect

Designs the application system to meet business requirements in the most performant and scalable way possible

System Model – Visually designing and validating a Vantiq system's structure.
Server Developer Best Practices – Performance and scalability don't have one right answer — weigh the trade-offs between approaches and choose what fits your project's business requirements.

Server Developer

Builds and optimizes program logic

Version Control System – Branching, versioning, and promoting Vantiq projects safely.
Testing Tools – Unit and integration testing strategies for Vantiq projects.
AI in Event-Driven Applications – How generative and agentic AI components plug into VAIL's event/rule model.
VAIL Procedures, Tools & Skills – Encapsulating business logic in reusable VAIL procedures.
Integration – Connecting Vantiq to external systems and APIs.
VAIL DML – Querying and manipulating Vantiq data with VAIL's data manipulation language.
VAIL Rules – Authoring WHEN/DO rules that react to events in real time.
Server Developer Best Practices – Performance and scalability don't have one right answer — weigh the trade-offs between approaches and choose what fits your project's business requirements.
App & GenAI Components – Composing app logic alongside GenAI components in the same project.
The Vantiq Catalog – Discovering, publishing, and reusing packaged assemblies from the Vantiq Catalog.
Assemblies – Packaging reusable project components as installable assemblies.
Distributed Deployment – Partitioning project resources for deployment across multiple installations and environments.
Vantiq Edge – Running and managing Vantiq nodes at the edge.

AI Developer

Builds Generative AI capabilities into applications

Version Control System – Branching, versioning, and promoting Vantiq projects safely.
GenAIBuilder – Build advanced generative AI systems on the platform with the GenAI Builder tool.
App & GenAI Components – Composing app logic alongside GenAI components in the same project.
VAIL Procedures, Tools & Skills – Encapsulating business logic in reusable VAIL procedures.
VAIL AI – Make the AI in your projects more flexible, autonomous, and informed with the built-in Service features of VAIL.
AI Multi-Agent Architecture – Design patterns for coordinating multiple AI agents across a Vantiq application.
Visual Event Handler AI Features – Add AI capabilities and Collaboration conversation management to Service Visual Event Handlers.

UI Developer

Creates interactive front-end user interfaces for the application system

Version Control System – Branching, versioning, and promoting Vantiq projects safely.
Integration – Connecting Vantiq to external systems and APIs.
Client Developer Best Practices – Patterns for building maintainable, performant Vantiq clients.
Client Layouts, Templates & Components – Composing layouts from reusable templates and components.
Launchable Clients – Packaging and launching client applications for end users.
Dynamic Client Content – Driving client screens and components from live, server-side data.
The Vantiq Catalog – Discovering, publishing, and reusing packaged assemblies from the Vantiq Catalog.
Assemblies – Packaging reusable project components as installable assemblies.

Administrator

Manages system resources at the System, Organization and Namespace levels

Vantiq Server Deployment – Installing the Vantiq server and related software onto cloud infrastructure.
System Administration – Monitoring cluster health and administering Orgs, Org Admins, and resource quotas.
Organization & Namespace Administration – The duties and platform tools for Org- and Namespace-level administrators.
Vantiq Command Line Interface – A terminal-based tool for shell scripts that perform basic Vantiq maintenance tasks.