MuleSoft Platform Architect’s Guide: A practical guide to using Anypoint Platform’s capabilities to architect, deliver, and operate APIs

Unlock the power of Anypoint Platform by leveraging MuleSoft methodology, Accelerators, runtime engines, and management tools to deliver secure, high-value APIs and integration solutions across the enterprise

Key Features

• Discover Anypoint Platform’s capabilities for creating high-availability, high-performance APIs
• Learn about AnyPoint architecture and platform attributes for Mule app deployment
• Explore best practices, tips, and tricks that will help you tackle challenging exam topics and achieve MuleSoft certification
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

We’re living in the era of digital transformation, where organizations rely on APIs to enable innovation within the business and IT teams are asked to continue doing more with less. As such, this book will help you deliver a robust, secure, and flexible enterprise API platform, supporting any required business outcome.

You’ll begin by understanding Anypoint Platform’s architecture and its capabilities for a modern integration approach. Then, you’ll learn how to align business outcomes with functional requirements and how non-functional requirements influence the shape of the architecture. You’ll also explore how Catalyst and Accelerators can be leveraged successfully, enabling efficient development cycles. As you progress, you’ll become familiar with hassle-free deployment and hosting APIs in CloudHub 1.0/2.0, Runtime Fabric Manager, and a hybrid customer-hosted environment. You’ll discover advanced operating and monitoring techniques with API Manager and Anypoint Monitoring. The concluding chapters will offer guidance and best practices on how to tackle complex topics, which will also be useful in helping you pass the challenging MuleSoft Certified Platform Architect exam.

By the end of this book, you’ll understand Anypoint Platform’s capabilities and be able to architect solutions that deliver the desired business outcomes.

What you will learn

• Understand Anypoint Platform’s integration architecture with core components
• Discover how to architect a solution using Catalyst principles
• Explore best practices to design an application network
• Align microservices, application networks, and event architectures with Anypoint Platform’s capabilities
• Identify non-functional requirements that shape the architecture
• Perform hassle-free application deployment to CloudHub using the Mule Maven plugin, CLI, and Platform API
• Understand how to manage the API life cycle for MuleSoft and non-MuleSoft APIs

Who this book is for

This book is for technical and infrastructure architects with knowledge of integration and APIs who are looking to implement these solutions with MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform. Architects enrolled in the platform architect course who want to understand the platform’s capabilities will also find this book helpful. The book is also a great resource for MuleSoft senior developers transitioning to platform architect roles and planning to take the MuleSoft Platform Architect exam. A solid understanding of MuleSoft API development, ideally 3 to 5 years of experience with the platform, is necessary.

Table of Contents

1. What is the MuleSoft Platform?
2. Platform Foundation Components and the Underlying Architecture
3. Leveraging Catalyst and the Mulesoft KnowledgeHub
4. An Introduction to Application Networks
5. Speeding with Accelerators
6. Aligning Desired Business Outcomes to Functional Requirements
7. Microservices, Application Networks, EDA, and API-led Design