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Anypoint Platform Architecture:
Application Networks
Introductions
● Name
● Company & role
● Experience with enterprise and integration architecture
● Experience with Anypoint Platform and MuleSoft products
● What do you plan on architecting on Anypoint Platform?
● What do you want to get out of class?
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Course logistics
● Class is typically from 09:00 to 16:00 on days 1 and 2
and from 09:00 to 15:00 on day 3
● 1 hour lunch break, typically from 12:00 to 13:00
● 2 breaks each morning and afternoon
○ Other breaks as desired - just ask!
● Please let us know if you have other business to attend to!
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Welcome To
Anypoint Platform Architecture:
Application Networks
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Introducing the course
There are two architecture courses and certifications
● Anypoint Platform Architecture: Application Networks and
MuleSoft Certified Platform Architect - Level 1
○ Define and be responsible for an organization’s Anypoint Platform strategy
○ Direct the emergence of an effective application network out of individual
integration solutions following API-led connectivity across an organization
● Anypoint Platform Architecture: Integration Solutions and
MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect - Level 1
○ Drive and be responsible for an organization’s Anypoint Platform implementation
and the technical quality, governance (ensuring compliance), and
operationalization of the integration solutions.
○ Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to translate functional and
non-functional requirements into integration interfaces and implementations
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Target audiences for the courses
● Anypoint Platform Architecture: Application Networks
○ Senior Solution and Enterprise Architects
■ With basic knowledge and experience with the components of Anypoint Platform
■ Experienced in common integration approaches (like SOA) and integration
technologies/platforms
● Anypoint Platform Architecture: Integration Solutions
○ Solution and Technical Architects or lead/senior developers
■ With experience developing and deploying non-trivial Mule applications
■ Focused on designing enterprise integration solutions
■ Experienced in common integration approaches (like SOA) and integration
technologies/platforms
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Course prerequisites
● Prior to attending this course
○ Experience with Anypoint Platform and its constituent components
■ Getting Started with Anypoint Platform
■ Anypoint Platform Development: Fundamentals
■ MuleSoft.U Development Fundamentals
■ API-Led Connectivity Workshop by MuleSoft Presales upon request
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At the end of this course, you should be able to
● Direct the emergence of an effective application network out of
individual integration solutions following API-led connectivity,
working with all relevant stakeholders on all levels of the
organization
● Create credible high-level architecture models for integration
solutions on Anypoint Platform such that functional and non-
functional requirements are likely to be met and the principles of
API-led connectivity and application networks are followed
● Course is predominantly about cloud-native architectures using
the MuleSoft-hosted Anypoint Platform - CloudHub
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Course outline
• Module 1: Putting the Course in Context
• Module 2: Introducing MuleSoft, the Application Network Vision and
Anypoint Platform
• Module 3: Establishing Organizational and Platform Foundations
• Module 4: Identifying, Reusing and Publishing APIs
• Module 5: Enforcing NFRs on the Level of API Invocations Using
Anypoint API Manager
• Module 6: Designing Effective APIs
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Course outline
• Module 7: Architecting and Deploying Effective API
Implementations
• Module 8: Augmenting API-Led Connectivity With Elements From
Event-Driven Architecture
• Module 9: Transitioning Into Production
• Module 10: Monitoring and Analyzing the Behavior of the
Application Network
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Varying degrees of fluff and stuff
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How the course will work
● Central topic: How to architect and design application
networks using API-led connectivity and Anypoint Platform
○ Partly Solution Architecture, partly Enterprise Architecture
● Light on Business Architecture, heavy on Application and
Technology Architecture
● No architecturally insignificant design and implementation
discussions
○ Fairly detailed discussion on strategies for invoking APIs in a fault-tolerant
way
● No code, no Java, XML or RAML
○ API Specification features are touched-on because they are important for the
functioning of an application network
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How the course will work
● Case study: Acme Insurance
○ Background and motivation for most discussions
● Some opinions are expressed that are ambiguous, without a
clear-cut distinction between correct or false
○ Such is the nature of architecture and design
○ Challenge the decisions made
○ Discussion of tradeoffs involved are important
● Exercises
○ Typically as group discussions
○ No actual “doing”, on the computer, with Anypoint Platform or any of its
components
● All architecture diagrams use ArchiMate 3 notation
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Course materials
● Available on MuleSoft Learning Management System
○ http://training.mulesoft.com/login
● Course manual (PDF)
○ A PDF of more than 300 pages
○ Includes all slide content with additional discussions and explanations
● Course slides (ZIP of PDFs)
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At the end of this course, you should get certified!
● After you learn & master the content in this course, get the
MuleSoft Certified Platform Architect – Level 1 certification!
○ For the target audience, attending this class and studying the course manual
should be sufficient for passing the exam
● This class comes with a voucher for 2 attempts for the exam
○ You will receive an email on the last day of class instructions to take the exam
and a voucher code
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Introducing Acme Insurance
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The Acme Insurance organization
● Well-established, medium-sized, regional insurance provider
● Two lines of business (LoBs):
○ Personal motor insurance
○ Home insurance
● Recently acquired by international competitor
● Being rebranded as subsidiary
of The New Owners
● Strategy increasingly defined
by The New Owners
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A glimpse into Acme Insurance's baseline
Technology Architecture
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A glimpse into Acme Insurance's baseline
Technology Architecture
● IBM-centric Data Center with Mainframe and clusters of AIX
machines
● Policy Admin System runs on Mainframe and is used by Motor
and Home Underwriting
○ Motor and Home policies use different data schemata
● Motor Claims System is operated in-house on WebSphere / AIX
● Web-accessible Home Claims System is operated externally
● Claims systems used by Acme Insurance’s Claims Adjudication
● Claims systems also used by outsourced call center
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Acme Insurance's motivation for change
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