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MuleSoft Platform Architect's Guide

MuleSoft Platform Architect's Guide

By : Jitendra Bafna, Jim Andrews
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MuleSoft Platform Architect's Guide

MuleSoft Platform Architect's Guide

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By: Jitendra Bafna, Jim Andrews

Overview of this book

We’re living in the era of digital transformation, where organizations rely on APIs to enable innovation within the business and IT teams are asked to continue doing more with less. Written by Jim Andrews, a Mulesoft Evangelist, and Jitendra Bafna, a Senior Solution Architect with expertise in setting up Mulesoft, this book will help you deliver a robust, secure, and flexible enterprise API platform, supporting any required business outcome. You’ll start by exploring Anypoint Platform’s architecture and its capabilities for modern integration before learning how to align business outcomes with functional requirements and how non-functional requirements shape the architecture. You'll also find out how to leverage Catalyst and Accelerators for efficient development. You'll get to grips with hassle-free API deployment and hosting in CloudHub 1.0/2.0, Runtime Fabric Manager, and hybrid environments and familiarize yourself with advanced operating and monitoring techniques with API Manager and Anypoint Monitoring. The final chapters will equip you with best practices for tackling complex topics and preparing for the MuleSoft Certified Platform Architect exam. By the end of this book, you’ll understand Anypoint Platform’s capabilities and be able to architect solutions that deliver the desired business outcomes.
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Coarse-grained APIs

A coarse-grained API is a kind of API design that combines multiple granular-level operations into a single function to provide highly encapsulated services. With fewer, more significant calls, it effectively represents a high-level action or series of actions. A coarse-grained API can complete an equivalent task with fewer requests than a fine-grained API, which needs multiple requests to complete a single task. For instance, a fine-grained API would normally offer distinct endpoints for the creation of new users, the addition of roles to existing users, and the assignment of permissions to existing users within the framework of user management systems. A coarse-grained API, on the other hand, might provide a single endpoint to carry out each of these tasks in a single request.

The following are the key features of coarse-grained APIs:

  • Composite operations: A single API call can perform several operations using coarse-grained APIs. This “one-stop...

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