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  • Write about databases online - blog posts, articles
  • Answer user queries on
    • Community Forums, like
      • StackOverflow
      • Discourse Forum
      • Slack
      • Mailing List forum
      • Meetup communities
      • Conferences
      • Bugs, Issues, Pull Requests, Tickets, Stories etc
        • GitHub / GitLab / JIRA etc
  • Talk about databases online - podcasts, videos (Spotify, YouTube etc)
  • Learn something related to databases every day and try to teach it by talking about it
  • Checkout tutorials on the database, and many great places (free and paid) to learn Mongo
    • Redis has Redis University (Free)
    • Mongo has MongoDB University (Free)
    • Cockroach DB has Cockroach Labs and Cockroach University
  • Contribute to the database code of existing databases
    • GitHub / GitLab etc for open source repos of Database projects
    • Help reproduce bugs raised by users
    • Dig and dive deep into the bugs and feature requests raised by users
  • Read research papers on topics that happen behind the scenes of a database
  • Learn and work on and work with different databases. Different types of databases. Different databases of same type too. Understand how their core implementation details change
  • Build a database from scratch. A replica of an existing database. Or a new database of an existing type (key-value DB, graph DB etc)
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