Anypoint Platform Architecture:

Integration Solutions

Introductions

● Name
● Company & role
● Experience with 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

● Time
– Class is for 5 days, typically from 9 to 5
– 1 hour lunch/mid-class break, typically from 12 to 1
– Break(s) each morning and afternoon
– Other breaks as desired - just ask!

● We know you have two jobs to do this week!

– If you have scheduled meetings, please let me know
■ We can try to schedule breaks around them

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Introducing the course

There are two architecture courses and certifications

● 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

● 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
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The overall course goal

● Within the context of a particular use case, be able to

– Understand and model features, options, and tradeoffs to
– Select and document meaningful and useful design specifications to
– Balance
• Various project requirements

• Sometimes conflicting goals of various technical stakeholders

• Other limitations and tradeoffs

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 Target audiences for the courses

● 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

● 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

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Course prerequisites and training pathways

● Experience developing and deploying Mule applications as

demonstrated by one of the following
– Passing the MuleSoft Certified Developer - Level 1 (Mule 4) exam
– Completion of Anypoint Platform Development: Fundamentals (Mule 4)
– Completion of MuleSoft.U Development Fundamentals (Mule 4)

● It is also helpful to have completed one or more of the following

courses
– Anypoint Platform Architecture: Application Networks
– Anypoint Platform Operations: CloudHub
– Anypoint Platform Operations: Customer-Hosted Runtimes

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 Prerequisites: Development and architecture
knowledge and experience
● Proficiency in any JVM-based programming language with ability to
read procedural, object-oriented, and (ideally) functional code
● Familiarity with threads, thread pools, locks, server/client sockets,
JDBC data sources, and connection pools on the JVM
● Proficiency with current software development tools like
Git/GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, or similar

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Prerequisites: Integration architecture experience

● Experience as an architect or lead/senior developer on at least one

integration project using any technology stack
● A full understanding of the fundamental ingredients of enterprise
integration including
– Interface definitions and contracts
– Data encoding using XML or JSON
– REST APIs or SOAP web services
– SQL or NoSQL database access
– Message-passing using JMS, AMQP or similar
– Network protocols like TCP/IP, HTTP and HTTPS
– Single-resource transactions
● Familiarity with basic security concepts including certificates and
encryption at rest and in transit
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 At the end of this course, you should be able to

● Successfully carry out the various job tasks required of an integration

solution architect to
– Design integration solutions
– Operationalize integration solutions
• Deployment, logging, management, maintenance
– Design and communicate non-functional requirements
• Way to organize our thinking about cross cutting concerns that affect many/all
applications
• For example, security, scaling, reliability

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Job tasks covered in the class

● Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to translate

functional and non-functional requirements into well documented
integration interfaces and detailed implementation designs

● Guide implementation teams on the choice of Mule components and

patterns to use in the implementation of integration solutions
designs

● Design reusable assets, components, standards, frameworks, and

processes to support and facilitate API and integration projects

● Apply standard development methods covering the full development

lifecycle (project preparation, analysis, design, development, testing,
deployment, and support) to ensure solution quality

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 Job tasks covered in the class

● Design Mule applications for any of the available Anypoint Platform

runtime planes

● Select the deployment approach and configuration of Anypoint

Platform with any of the available deployment options
(MuleSoft-hosted or customer-hosted control plane and runtime plane)

● Design and be responsible for the technical quality, governance

(ensuring compliance), and operationalization of the integration
solution

● Advise technical teams on performance, scalability, reliability,

monitoring and other operational concerns of the integration
solution on Anypoint Platform

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Course outline - Part 1: Designing Integration

Solutions
● Module 1: Architecting Integration Solutions
● Module 2: Identifying the Components and Capabilities of
Anypoint Platform
● Module 3: Designing Integration Solutions using Mule Applications
● Module 4: Choosing Appropriate Mule 4 Processing Models
● Module 5: Choosing Mule Event Transformation and Routing
Patterns
● Module 6: Designing Testing Strategies for Mule Applications

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Course outline - Part 2: Designing Operationalization
of Integration Solutions
● Module 7: Choosing and Developing a Deployment Strategy
● Module 8: Designing State Preservation and Management Options
● Module 9: Designing Effective and Sufficient Logging and Monitoring
● Module 10: Creating an Efficient and Automated Software
Development Lifecycle

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Course outline - Part 3: Designing to Meet

Non-Functional Requirements
● Module 11: Designing for Transactional Requirements
● Module 12: Clarifying and Designing for Reliability Goals
● Module 13: Designing for High Availability Goals
● Module 14: Optimizing Performance of Deployed Mule Applications
● Module 15: Designing Secure Mule Applications and Deployments
● Module 16: Securing Network Communications between Mule
Applications
● Module 17: Documenting Integration Solutions Architectures

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Approximate agenda

● Day 1: Part 1 (Module 1 - Module 3)

● Day 2: Part 1 (Module 4 - Module 6)

● Day 3: Part 2 (Module 7 - Module 9)

● Day 4: Part 3 (Module 10 - Module 14)

● Day 5: Part 3 (Module 15 - Module 17)

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How the course will work

● Is case-study driven
– Everyone will use the same case study
– Role play that we all work for AnyAirlines
● As the course progresses, different parts of an integration solution
architecture for a strategic change initiative will be documented
– Starting with a provided integration architecture template
● Design tradeoffs will be evaluated and whenever possible a best
choice will be decided within the context of the enterprise and the
particular use case
– Each student's individual solutions will be compared and discussed as a group
● Light on Business Architecture, heavy on Application and
Technology Architecture
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 How each module will work

● Lectures (slides)
– To provide background knowledge and seed group discussions

● Reflection questions
– Group discussions to reinforce knowledge and compare and contrast options
and best practices

● Exercises
– Build your skills by applying the knowledge presented in the slides
– Provide hands-on experience creating an integration architecture
document for the course case study

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How each exercise will work

● Usually start with a group discussion followed by individual work

to fill in specific parts of the document using best practices and
informed decisions

● You will create design diagrams

– The course materials are built using LucidCharts www.lucidchart.com
– End with individual presentations and group discussions

● Some solutions are provided

● There are some light coding and runtime operations activities

– Common development, deployment, and management tools and services are
either demonstrated or you use them in the hands-on exercises
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Course materials

● Available on MuleSoft Learning Management System

– http://training.mulesoft.com/login.html

● Student files (ZIP)

– Starting files and documents needed to complete some of the exercises
– Exercise solutions
– Reference materials

● 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 Integration Architect – Level 1 certification!

● 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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 Prerequisite setup for the course

● Sign up for a trial account at http://anypoint.mulesoft.com

● Download and install Anypoint Studio 7 from

https://www.mulesoft.com/lp/dl/studio

● Either have Microsoft Word installed on your computer, or have

access to a Google Docs account
● Have software to draw architecture diagrams, such as
– https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
– https://www.archimatetool.com/download/

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Introducing the course case

study
 The course case study

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