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What you'll learn

Learn the answer to the question: "what is Mulesoft?"

Learn the concepts behind API-led connectivity: a new integration architecture approach that will make SOA and Microservices obsolete!

Introducing MuleSoft, the Application Network vision and Anypoint Platform

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

Describe the capabilities and high-level components of Anypoint Platform

Establishing organizational and platform foundations

Advise on establishing a C4E and identify KPIs to measure its success.

Choose between options for hosting Anypoint Platform and provisioning Mule runtimes.

Describe the set-up of organizational structure on Anypoint Platform.

Compare and contrast identity provider and client provider on Anypoint Platform.

Identifying, reusing and publishing web APIs

Assign each web API to one of the three tiers of API-led connectivity.

Adopt the principle of reusing web APIs wherever possible.

Publish web APIs and related assets for reuse.

Role of Anypoint DataGraph in creation of unified schema.

Enforcing NFRs on the level of web API invocations using Anypoint API Manager

Describe how Anypoint API Manager controls web API invocations.

Use API policies to enforce nonfunctional constraints on web API invocations.

Choose between enforcement of API policies in a web API implementation, an API proxy, or Anypoint Service Mesh.

Register a web API client for access to a web API version.

Describe when and how to pass client ID/secret to a web API.

Establish guidelines for API policies suitable for system APIs, process APIs and experience APIs.

Describe how Anypoint Security enables (de-)tokenization and additional Edge policies in Anypoint Runtime Fabric deployments.

Designing effective APIs

Appreciate the importance of contract-first API design and RAML fragments.

Choose between enterprise data models and bounded context data models.

Opt for semantic API versioning and where to expose which elements of a API’s version.

Consciously design system APIs to abstract from backend systems.

Apply HTTP-based, asynchronous execution of API invocations and caching to meet NFRs.

Identify idempotent HTTP methods and HTTP-native support for optimistic concurrency.

Architecting and deploying effective Web API Implementations

Describe autodiscovery of web API implementations implemented as Mule applications

Describe CloudHub

Choose Object Store in a CloudHub setting

Apply fault-tolerant strategies that help web API clients guard against failures in web API invocations

Augmenting API-Led Connectivity with elements from event-driven architecture

Selectively choose elements of event-driven architecture in addition to API-led connectivity

Make effective use of events and message destinations

Impose event exchange patterns in accordance with API-led connectivity

Describe Anypoint MQ and its features

Transitioning into production

Locate web API-related activities on a development lifecycle

Interpret DevOps using Anypoint Platform tools and features

Design automated tests from the viewpoint of API-led connectivity and the application network

Monitoring and analyzing the behavior of the Application Network

Describe the origins of data used in monitoring, analyzing, and alerting on Anypoint Platform

Describe the metrics and capabilities of Anypoint Monitoring

Describe the metrics collected by Anypoint Platform on the level of web API invocations

Requirements

Basic Computer Knowledge and internet access

You have an attitude to learn while having fun :)

Want to learn Mulesoft from scratch

Want to go down the Mulesoft rabbit hole

Description

This course was created with one goal only: to teach you more and more about Mulesoft, in the way that at the end of this course you should be ready to apply and pass your MCPA exam, and become the next Mulesoft Certified Platform Architect (MCPA).In resume, this course will level up your Mulesoft game and help you out progress from a Mule Developer to a Mule Architect by learning on how to create an application network out of individual integration solutions following an API-led connectivity using Anypoint Platform!So, don't worry if you have no prior knowledge!Start Learning Now. Hit the Enroll Button!The main principle behind this course is to introduce all contents in a very detailed but easy way, so it can results in a few benefits for all students enrolled:Reduces your learning curve at maximum by going straight to the point;Clear Introduction and hands-on experience to the most popular tools used in a real life Mulesoft project: anypoint studio, anypoint platform, maven;Gives you the skills needed to get prepared for the next step in the middleware world and become an Enterprise Architect, a Platform Architect or a Solution Architect;Gives you the knowledge and foundations to become yourself a Mulesoft Certified Platform Architect (MCPA);Gives you the knowledge needed to apply for a new opportunity in the software sector as a Mulesoft Platform Architect;In resume, it gives you all the tools to get a high-paying job. But how we will accomplish that?Shortly, through a hands-on experience, we will cover in detail all the most important topics which are required for being proficient in managing and ruling the full software development lifecycle of a MuleSoft project with Anypoint Platform.Thus, at the end of the course you will:test your knowledge with dozens of quizzeshands-on practice with practical lecturesSo, what are you waiting for?Go from Mulesoft Certified Developer (MCD) to Mulesoft Certified Platform Architect (MCPA). Hit the Enroll Button!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 What is MuleSoft?

Lecture 2 What is the application network?

Lecture 3 APIs as standard building blocks

Section 2: API-led Connectivity

Lecture 4 API-led connectivity approach

Section 3: Identifying, reusing and publishing web APIs

Lecture 5 Coarse-grained web APIs vs Fine-grained web APIs

Section 4: Center for Enablement (C4E)

Lecture 6 C4E: Guiding principles and business roles

Lecture 7 Practical Lecture

Section 5: Anypoint Platform

Lecture 8 Introducing Anypoint Platform

Lecture 9 Practical Lecture

Lecture 10 Introducing Anypoint DataGraph

Section 6: Designing effective web APIs

Lecture 11 API Fragments

Lecture 12 Practical Lecture

Lecture 13 Enterprise data model vs bounded context data models

Lecture 14 Abstracting from backend systems with system APIs

Section 7: Versioning web APIs

Lecture 15 Semantic versioning web APIs

Lecture 16 Practical Lecture

Section 8: Asynchronous execution and concurrency control for web APIs

Lecture 17 Asynchronous processing with REST APIs

Lecture 18 State handling for asynchronous execution of web API requests

Section 9: Caching, Retrying and Idempotent HTTP Methods

Lecture 19 Caching HTTP responses

Lecture 20 Practical Lecture

Section 10: Publishing and reusing web API-related assets

Lecture 21 Create an Anypoint Exchange entry for a web API

Lecture 22 Practical Lecture

Section 11: Enforcing API policies in web API invocations

Lecture 23 Introducing API Policies

Lecture 24 Ways of enforcing API Policies and how does it work?

Lecture 25 Embedded enforcement

Lecture 26 Enforcement through API Proxies

Lecture 27 Enforcement via Anypoint Service Mesh

Lecture 28 Introducing Anypoint Service Mesh

Lecture 29 Managing web APIs with API Manager

Lecture 30 Available API Policies in API Manager

Lecture 31 SLA tiers for web APIs

Lecture 32 Registering API clients to web API instances and API groups

Lecture 33 Client ID-based API Policies

Lecture 34 API Policies per API layer

Lecture 35 Autodiscovery of web API implementations

Lecture 36 Practical Lecture

Section 12: Anypoint Platform deployment scenarios

Lecture 37 Control Plane vs Runtime Plane

Lecture 38 MuleSoft-hosted vs Customer-hosted

Lecture 39 Anypoint Platform with CloudHub

Lecture 40 Anypoint VPC with CloudHub

Lecture 41 Mulesoft Government Cloud

Lecture 42 Anypoint Runtime Fabric

Lecture 43 Hybrid

Lecture 44 Private Cloud Edition

Lecture 45 Anypoint Platform data residency

Lecture 46 Practical Lecture

Section 13: Anypoint Platform Control Plane

Lecture 47 Access Management

Lecture 48 Identity Providers vs Client Providers: Identity Provider

Lecture 49 Identity Providers vs Client Providers: Client Provider

Lecture 50 Connected Apps

Lecture 51 Practical Lecture

Section 14: Anypoint Security

Lecture 52 Introducing Edge Policies

Section 15: Anypoint CloudHub 1.0

Lecture 53 Architecture

Lecture 54 CloudHub Shared Worker Cloud

Lecture 55 CloudHub Private Worker Cloud

Lecture 56 Anypoint VPC: Introduction

Lecture 57 Anypoint VPC: Connectivity to Organization Data Centers

Lecture 58 Anypoint VPC: Dedicated Load Balancer

Lecture 59 Anypoint VPC: IP Range and Allowlisting

Section 16: Object Store

Lecture 60 Characteristics of Object Store in CloudHub

Section 17: Fault-tolerant web API invocations

Lecture 61 Designing fault-tolerant web API implementations: Part 1

Lecture 62 Designing fault-tolerant web API implementations: Part 2

Section 18: Event-driven Architecture

Lecture 63 API-led connectivity vs Event-driven architecture

Lecture 64 Event exchange patterns in API-led connectivity

Section 19: Development Lifecycle

Lecture 65 DevOps principles and pipelines

Lecture 66 Promoting web API Instances in API Manager

Lecture 67 Unit Tests vs Integration Tests

Lecture 68 Vertical Scaling vs Horizontal Scaling

Section 20: Anypoint Monitoring

Lecture 69 Types of alerts and API Functional Monitoring

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