Anypoint Platform Architecture: Application Networks (ARC720)

When you complete this course, you will be able to:

• Break down functional requirements into business-aligned, versioned APIs with effective granularity and API data model.
• Direct creation and publication of API-related assets using RAML and Anypoint Platform components.
• Architect for non-functional requirements on the level of API invocations and API implementations using components of Anypoint Platform.
• Architect for specific requirements by augmenting API-led connectivity with event-driven architecture.
• Select Anypoint Platform deployment options.
• Advise on effective use of the automation capabilities of Anypoint Platform for DevOps, CI/CD, and testing.
• Advise on the establishment and operation of a Center for Enablement (C4E).

This course is for senior solution and enterprise architects who have experience with common integration approaches (like SOA) and integration technologies/platforms, and have basic knowledge and experience with the components of Anypoint Platform. It prepares you to take the MuleSoft Certified Platform Architect - Level 1 exam and includes two exam attempts.
 

This course is for senior solution and enterprise architects who have experience with common integration approaches (like SOA) and integration technologies/platforms, and have basic knowledge and experience with the components of Anypoint Platform. It prepares you to take the MuleSoft Certified Platform Architect - Level 1 exam and includes two exam attempts. Prerequisites: A basic knowledge and experience with the components of Anypoint Platform from one of the following: Completion of the Getting Started with Anypoint Platform course Completion of the Anypoint Platform Development: Fundamentals course A current MuleSoft Certified Developer - Level 1 certificate
 

Lessons and Topics Introducing the course

• Define Catalyst
• Describe how this course is aligned to parts of Catalyst
• Use essential course terminology correctly
• Recognize the ArchiMate 3 notation subset used in this course

Introducing MuleSoft, the application network vision, and Anypoint Platform

• Articulate MuleSoft's mission
• Explain MuleSoft's proposal for closing the increasing IT delivery gap
• Describe the capabilities and high-level components of Anypoint Platform

Establishing organizational and platform foundations

• Advise on establishing a C4E and identify KPIs to measure its success
• Choose between options for hosting Anypoint Platform and provisioning Mule runtimes
• Describe the set-up of organizational structure on Anypoint Platform
• Compare and contrast Identity Management and Client Management on Anypoint Platform

Identifying, reusing, and publishing APIs

• Utilize universal API management to deliver products and projects derived from initiatives
• Identify APIs needed to implement these products
• Assign each API to one of the three tiers of API-led connectivity
• Reason about composition and collaboration of APIs
• Reuse APIs wherever possible
• Publish APIs and related assets for reuse
• Understand how API Community Manager helps build developer communities around APIs in an application network

Enforcing NFRs on the level of API invocations using Anypoint API Manager

• Explain how to control API invocations with API Manager
• Use API policies to enforce non-functional constraints on API invocations
• Choose between enforcement of API policies in an API implementation, an API proxy, or Anypoint Service Mesh
• Register an API client for access to an API version
• Describe when and how to pass client ID and secret to an API
• Govern APIs as part of the API lifecycle
• Describe how Anypoint Security enables de-tokenization and additional Edge policies in Anypoint Runtime Fabric deployments

Designing effective APIs

• Appreciate the importance of contract-first API design and RAML fragments
• Opt for semantic API versioning and where to expose what elements of an API’s version
• Choose between Enterprise Data Model and Bounded Context Data Models
• Consciously design System APIs to abstract from backend systems
• Apply HTTP-based asynchronous execution of API invocations and caching to meet NFRs
• Identify idempotent HTTP methods and HTTP-native support for optimistic concurrency

Architecting and deploying effective API implementations

• Describe auto-discovery of API implementations implemented as Mule applications
• Appreciate how Anypoint Connectors serve System APIs in particular
• Describe CloudHub and CloudHub 2.0
• Choose Object Store in a CloudHub setting
• Apply strategies that help API clients guard against failures in API invocations
• Describe the role of CQRS and the separation of commands and queries in API-led connectivity
• Explain the role of event sourcing

Augmenting API-Led connectivity with elements from event-driven architecture

• Selectively choose elements of event-driven architecture in addition to API-led connectivity
• Make effective use of events and message destinations
• Impose event exchange patterns in accordance with API-led connectivity
• Describe Anypoint MQ and its features
• Apply event-driven architecture with Anypoint MQ to address specific NFRs

Transitioning into production

• Locate API-related activities on a development lifecycle
• Interpret DevOps using Anypoint Platform tools and features
• Design automated tests from the viewpoint of API-led connectivity and the application network
• Identify the factors involved in scaling API performance
• Use deprecation and deletion of API versions in Anypoint Platform
• Identify single points of failure

Monitoring and analyzing the behavior of the application network

• Recognize Anypoint Monitoring capabilities and metrics
• Explain the origins of data used in monitoring, analyzing, and alerting on Anypoint Platform
• Describe and classify metrics collected by Anypoint Platform on the API invocation level
• Analyze the application network with Anypoint Visualizer
• Implement API analytics within and outside of Anypoint Platform
• Exemplify API invocation alerts based on key metrics for all tiers of the API-led connectivity
• Critique the reliability of the application network utilizing metrics from Anypoint Monitoring
• Organize documentation for operational excellence