Anypoint Platform Development: Production- Ready Development Practices (DEX660)

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

• Interactively provision API-related artifacts and secure access to APIs.
• Enhance data protection using HTTPS.
• Configure Mule applications succinctly and securely for different deployment environments.
• Automate the building, unit testing, and deployment of Mule applications using Maven-based tooling.
• Write unit tests for Mule flows using MUnit that is optimized for reuse and maintainability.
• Improve monitorability of Mule applications through healthchecks and operational logging.
• Share assets and resources including code, connector configurations, and more between projects.

This course is for software developers who have mastered the fundamentals of creating Mule applications with Anypoint Studio™ and Anypoint Platform™ and now want to learn the skills and best practices to build production-ready Mule applications — applications that are ready to be used in a DevOps environment in professional software development projects. This course together with the Anypoint Platform Development: Production-Ready Integrations course prepares you to take the MuleSoft Certified Developer - Level 2 exam. If you complete both courses and have a current MuleSoft Certified Developer - Level 1 certification, you will automatically receive two exam attempts.
 

This course is for software developers who have mastered the fundamentals of creating Mule applications with Anypoint Studio™ and Anypoint Platform™ and now want to learn the skills and best practices to build production-ready Mule applications — applications that are ready to be used in a DevOps environment in professional software development projects. This course together with the Anypoint Platform Development: Production-Ready Integrations course prepares you to take the MuleSoft Certified Developer - Level 2 exam. If you complete both courses and have a current MuleSoft Certified Developer - Level 1 certification, you will automatically receive two exam attempts.
 

Lessons and Topics API-Related Artifact Provisioning

• Recap Fundamental API-Related Workflows in Anypoint Platform
• Import, Export, and Publish an API Specification
• Manage an API Instance in API Manager
• Implement an API as a Mule Application
• Expose an HTTPS Endpoint from a Mule Application
• Register an API Implementation Using Autodiscovery

Basic Software Engineering Principles

• Apply and Follow Coding Conventions
• Securely Parameterize Mule Applications and its Maven Build for Different Runtime Environments
• Deploy to CloudHub from a Maven Build

Operational Concerns

• Implement Operational Logging
• Expose Health Check Endpoints and Monitor a Mule Application from Anypoint Platform
• Extract Reusable Mule Application Code Into a Library

Unit-Testing Automation with MUnit

• Enable a Mule Application for Unit Testing with MUnit
• Perform Basic Unit Testing for Integration Functionality
• Mock External Dependencies
• Spy on the Data Exchanged with External Dependencies

Setup Requirements

• A computer with:
  • At least 8-16 GB RAM (16 highly recommended), 2GHz CPU, and 10GB available storage
  • A minimum screen resolution of 1024x768
• Internet access to ports 80 and 443 (with > 5Mbps download and > 2Mbps upload)
• The latest version of Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge
• An Anypoint Platform account
• OpenJDK 8 (not 11 or a later version)
• Anypoint Studio 7.15 or later with embedded Mule 4 runtime
• Advanced REST Client 16.0.1 or later (or any other REST client application)
• Apache Maven 3.6.3 to 3.8.6
• API Catalog CLI (optional)
  • Note: Be sure to install prerequisites of NodejS and Git as noted in the installation instructions