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Anypoint Platform Architecture: Integration Solutions


PART 1: Architecting and designing integration solutions


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Module 1: Introducing integration solution architectures

  • Describe the objectives of enterprise integration solution

  • Summarize how to architect for success with Anypoint Platform

  • Describe how integration solutions using Anypoint Platform are documented

  • Describe using an architecture template for the course case study

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Module 2: Identifying Anypoint Platform components and capabilities

  • Identify and document the overall design intentions of Anypoint Platform

  • Explain MuleSoft’s proposal for closing the increasing IT delivery gap

  • Review API-led development techniques and options

  • Identify Anypoint Platform components used to design and govern web APIs

  • Explain event-driven API support in Anypoint Platform

  • Distinguish between Anypoint Platform service and deployment models

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Module 3: Designing integration solutions using Mule applications

  • Identify how Mule application components are typically used to implement integration solutions

  • Apply Mule application components and capabilities to a range of use cases

  • Summarize how class loading isolation is implemented in Mule runtimes

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Module 4: Choosing appropriate Mule event processing models

  • Distinguish between Mule blocking, non-blocking, parallel, and reactive event processing options

  • Identify the event processing models used in various Mule scopes and components

  • Describe Mule streaming options and behaviors

  • Describe the fundamentals of web APIs and event-driven architecture

  • Describe the event processing options for JMS and VM connectors

  • Select appropriate event processing for an integration use case

  • Design integration use cases with batch, near real-time, and real-time data synchronization

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Module 5: Choosing appropriate message transformation and routing patterns

  • Describe reusable ways to transform and process events

  • Explain how to simplify and decouple complex data mappings using common data models

  • Design transformations between data models

  • Choose the best event transformation, data validation, and event routing patterns to an integration use case

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Module 6: Designing Mule application testing strategies

  • Explain why testing is important in an integration project

  • Identify the MuleSoft-provided framework and tools for testing during the software development lifecycle

  • Design testing strategies for a Mule® application

  • Define test coverage for flows in a Mule application

PART 2: Operationalizing integration solutions


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Module 7: Choosing and developing a deployment strategy

  • Identify the service and deployment models supported by Anypoint Platform

  • Distinguish between various Anypoint Platform deployment models

  • Design containerized deployments for Mule runtimes

  • Decide deployment options for various scenarios

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Module 8: Designing with appropriate state preservation and management options

  • Decide on the best way to store a Mule application state in persistent or non-persistent storage

  • Identify how to store a CloudHub application state using Object Store v2

  • Decide on the best way to manage storage of a Mule application state using persistent queues

  • Configure Mule application-provided caches to store a Mule application state

  • Avoid duplicate processing of previous records using watermarks and idempotency validation

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Module 9: Designing effective logging and monitoring

  • Describe auditing and logging options for Mule applications

  • Design logging strategies for Mule applications

  • Choose logging policies for Mule application log files

  • Describe integration options with third-party log management systems

  • Specify Anypoint Platform monitoring, alerting, notification, visualization, and reporting options for APIs and integration solutions

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Module 10: Designing an efficient and automated software development lifecycle

  • Manage property files for Mule applications across different environments

  • Manage Anypoint Platform environments for Mule application deployments

  • Implement continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) for an organization

  • Automate deployment and management with Anypoint Platform

PART 3: Strategies to meet non-functional requirements


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Module 11: Designing transaction management in Mule applications

  • Identify why and when transactions are supported in Mule applications

  • Identify resources that participate in transactions in Mule applications

  • Demarcate transaction boundaries in Mule applications

  • Choose the correct transaction type based on the participating resources

  • Manage a transaction using the Saga pattern

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Module 12: Designing for reliability goals

  • Distinguish between competing non-functional requirements

  • Clarify and validate reliability goals for a scenario

  • Design Mule applications and their deployments to meet reliability goals

  • Identify reliability pattern for Mule applications

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Module 13: Designing for high availability goals

  • Clarify high availability (HA) goals for Mule applications

  • Balance HA goals with reliability and performance goals

  • Identify ways to achieve HA using Anypoint Platform, in CloudHub and customer-hosted runtime planes

  • Describe how clustering and load balancing works

  • Identify HA aware connectors and their design trade-offs

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Module 14: Optimizing the performance of deployed Mule applications

  • Clarify performance goals for Mule applications

  • Identify the need for performance optimization and associated trade-offs

  • Describe ways to search for and locate performance bottlenecks

  • Describe how to design, architect, and implement for performance

  • Describe ways to measure performance

  • Describe methods and best practices to performance-tune Mule applications and Mule runtimes

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Module 15: Designing secure Mule applications and deployments

  • Identify Anypoint Platform security concepts and options

  • Describe how to secure APIs on Anypoint Platform

  • Explain the security needs addressed by Anypoint Platform edge security

  • Differentiate between MuleSoft and customer responsibilities related to Anypoint Platform security

  • Evaluate security risks for Mule applications

  • Describe how to secure Mule application properties and data in transit

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Module 16: Designing secure Mule applications and deployments

  • Describe Anypoint Platform network security options and architectures

  • Describe how to secure Mule® applications using Java key stores

  • Design TLS communication and other network security options for an integration use case

  • Distinguish between various CloudHub deployments with load balancers

  • Properly size an Anypoint Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to support deployment of all expected Mule applications