Anypoint Platform

Anypoint Platform is part that accepts requests from the outside, passes them securely to the system, and then communicates the response. The design remains a black box. 

The advantage is that it does not need to know how the system works and processes requests. Moreover, the system can be replaced entirely. But the request-response chain will continue working perfectly as long as the API knows how to ‘talk’ to the new system.

MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform 

MuleSoft‘s Anypoint Platform is a single, unified solution for iPaaS and full life-cycle API management. The Anypoint Platform consists of various major components:

• Anypoint Security,
• Anypoint Design center,
• Anypoint Management center,
• Anypoint Exchange,
• Runtime engine & services,
• API-led connectivity,
• Application Network,
• DataWeave.

Anypoint Security

Anypoint Security is responsible for protecting our APIs and integrations. MuleSoft takes security very seriously. A sequenced approach to protection ensures tight access control on a low level of individual APIs. However, enforcing global policies defends it from external attacks.

Anypoint Design center

Anypoint Design Center is a development environment that contains two types of tools:

• API Designer
• Flow Designer

1. API Designer

API Designer enables us to create API specifications in various modeling languages and create RAML API fragments. After we create a specification or fragment, publish it to Anypoint Exchange for anyone in our MuleSoft organization to use.

2. Flow Designer

In Flow Designer, we can create Mule applications to integrate systems into workflows.

Anypoint Management Center

• However, we can map APIs and dependencies by using any point management center.
• By AMC, users can classify APIs and applications into system, process, and experience layers, to ensure best practices. At last, filter the view of the application network based on the environment, average response time, and many more.
• Basically, set up status alerts as can be seen on the performance of APIs to know various things. To know when batches are stuck in the process, when servers disconnect, or when API metrics fluctuate and adjust following resources proactively.
• We can reduce the mean time to resolute and drill into dashboards or logs to quickly identify various issues. 

Anypoint PlatformExchange

1. By using any point exchange, we can build upon previous projects by reusing our own assets auto populated into Anypoint Exchange.
2. We can improve collaboration across a number of development teams certainly.
3. We can automatically generate documentation and map dependencies across different assets in Exchange. Moreover, by creating custom roles, permissions, and team structures aligned to the organization to provide access to contribute or administer assets.

Runtime engine & services

• It deploys on runtime to ensure uptime across any deployment, or cloud.
• We can use the Mule SDK to create customized modules for integrating homegrown systems.
• Saving our valuable time when optimizing for performance with Mule’s dynamic self-tuning mechanism.
• It streams and accesses data concurrently in order to process, propagate, and transform information at scale.

API-led connectivity

Using an API-led connectivity approach we can also create a flexible and scalable network of APIs. One top benefit of API-led connectivity is reusability for new projects. After all, we can reuse many of the existing assets and APIs to save time and effort.

MuleSoft recognizes 3 types of APIs depending on their role: System APIs, Process APIs, and Experience APIs.

1. System APIs are responsible for direct communication to back-end systems. Their main role is to cover the complexity of the underlying systems.
2. Process APIs merge data, and process it delivered by one or multiple System APIs for a specific business purpose. e.g., to deliver a 360-customer view, the process retrieves information from a number of systems. The data must be merged and processed before it is passed to Experience APIs.
3. Experience APIs are more complex APIs that combine information from a number of APIs. Moreover, their role is to deliver not only the information to a specific channel. By this channel, we mean a mobile app as can be seen, a partner organization for data-sharing, or even robots (RPA).

Application Network

A way of connecting a number of applications, data, and devices through APIs. It exposes some or all of their assets and data on the network. Finally, that specific network allows other consumers from other parts of the business to come in and discover assets for their use.

DataWeave

MuleSoft’s primary language i.e DataWeave for data transformation, expression language used to configure components and connectors. However, DataWeave is also available in various contexts, like as a command-line tool.

Conclusion

TriColor Initiatives is an accelerating partner of MuleSoft which is the heart of successful digital transformation. Also, the Anypoint Platform allows our technical professionals to play with an API to simplify our process of development.

With MuleSoft API’s approach above all, our company can easily adjust to changes. As a result, Mule API allows our company to unshackle systems, enabling us to increase network capacity.