Product Vision and Roadmap for Anypoint Platform

Editor's Notes

• #3: First, our safe harbor reminding us as always the confidential nature of what we are sharing with you, our customers and partners and what we are presenting could change in the future.
• #4: # Of Valid Defects Found: 973 All Resolved: 1600 Resolved by Code Fix: 1061 #of Valid ERs Found: 457 All Resolved: 315 Resolved by Code Fix: 199 #of Releases: 173 1 Studio custom API policies 2 Alerting for MQ 3 Insights support for Hybrid Apps/Servers 4 Self service VPC setup 5 RAML fragments 6 Batch Management (Cloud) 7 Dynamics Properties Management 8 MQ FIFO 9 Object Store 10 PCF 11 PCE 12 Exchange API registry of API Portals 13 COBOL Copybook 14 APIKit for Odata 15 MQ One time delivery 16 Partner Manager 1.2 17 Hybrid Monitoring 18 Heathcare Accelerator 19 Resource Level Policies 20 RAML2HTML 21 API Console 3.0 22 Cloud Audit Logging 23 API Management 1.14
• #5: API Sync View is a feature integrated in Anypoint Studio that allows you to seamlessly pull, push and compare your API definition between Anypoint Studio and API Designer.
• #6: Big Data Connectors – MongoDB – Hadoop – Redis – Kafka
• #8: Today, the convergence of digital technologies is rapidly changing the landscape from monolithic on-premise installations into smaller, distributed components. Companies must now connect hundreds of SaaS applications and a myriad of devices And the apps they are building on cloud platforms like AWS, Azure and Google must also connect to their legacy systems. Everyone has the same building blocks. It’s how quickly and effectively you can compose them that has become an important source of competitive advantage. But there’s a catch. While all these technology building blocks typically provide a specific function really well, they aren’t designed to work together. And that’s where the problem has always been. So even as the monoliths break down Monoliths breaking down More data, devices.
• #9: Enable: Faster innovation Moving towards: Specialization of services and teams Breaking down monoliths Working in small co-located units But critically, specialization driving more services everywhere And not just more services, but new operating models – Scrum, Agile, DevOps, and the proverbial “pizza box” sized teams All driven by the desire to have faster iteration cycles With Independence of concerns What does this mean for all of us? Integration is moving from the “edge” of the monolith to the center of everything we do as IT professionals and product development teams. ===== But microservices and best of breed solutions not integrated effectively doesn’t lead to speed and agility, it leads to lots of point to point connections. So you feel good at first, but then things slow down more and more. And they get harder to manage rather than easier. And teams get frustrated. And development and innovation slows down. And the promise of the pizza box team dies.
• #11: The road to hell is paved with good intentions – that old proverb that applies here. Lets just assume that each all project teams are properly staffed, have good leadership, and have a good plan. Overtime the teams work hard to build good systems that basically work for the intended goal. The problem is that The projects are just a hard as previous one (not getting any easier) – not getting leverage out of theme Complexity increases exponentially. The more things connected the more complexity. The more unintended consequences. Resulting in brittle, fragile application landscapes that can paralyse and slow down speed
• #12: So we need to get to both agility and quality, stability, governance, and great architecture. How do we get agility without anarchy? How do we get great architecture without heavyweight processes? API-led development Develop contracts API’s are not enough Specify them, mock them, rapidly work off the contracts so you have independence between teams but strong association between units of work. Separation of concerns Leads to an application network Critical ingredients = API’s and composite services
• #14: Call out personas Integration specialists Adhoc integrators All developers
• #17: As we have brought our API led connectivity approach to enterprises, we’ve broadened the audiences that we’ve talked to Central IT has very developer oriented skill sets. Studio has aligned very well with these skill sets Creating unified set of tools + new implementation tool for LOB/app developers that broader our reach, and allow us to move faster
• #19: API design and development in on place, keeping it together, consistency, live documentation and keeping API definition together - lifecycle together, stagnation of content / API definition
• #20: Built on web technologies New streamlined implementation tool for: Data sync (Q2) API publishing/composition (2017 H2) Process orchestration (2017 H2) Guided developer experience that doesn’t require code-level concepts Collaborate on mappings, APIs, and reusable flows Seamlessly integrated with Studio & Mule Guided development Code-less experience Embedded SDLC Integrated repository for reuse (Exchange)
• #21: Seamless collaboration and expansion (need better word) across use cases – from simple to most complex. No cliffs or barriers between the tools and use cases.
• #22: Example flows – decrease by x% Refined Mule language Fewer steps for common tasks Fewer concepts to learn Java expertise optional Unified data-mapping and expression language
• #23: MuleSoft has 80+ connectors across Platform, SaaS, Big Data, B2B and Infrastructure categories. We continue to innovate to provide more and more connectivity. These doesn’t include Community connectors. More connectivity assets in MuleSoft Connectivity Ecosystem will be introduced this year. B2B 8 Big Data 4 Infrastructure 8 On-premise 10 Platform 35 SaaS 15
• #24: With 17K+ Public APIs and 500+ applications in an average enterprise, we need partners and developers to participate in MuleSoft Connectivity Ecosystem in order to fill gaps of instant connectivity to the growing numbers of endpoints. We have 22 MuleSoft Certified Assets (20 Connectors and 2 RAMLs) in the ecosystem and expect 70% of assets such as connectors and APIs to come from the ecosystem in 2018. More connectivity assets in MuleSoft Connectivity Ecosystem will be introduced this year.
• #25: Ubiquitous connectivity Any flow into a connector Why are we investing in the way that we are in 2017. Well our core belief is that connectivity should be beyond just connectors, which is why while we continue to expand the breadth and depth of our connectors, a lot of our investments are also dedicated to making the tooling that enables easy, universal connectivity. It is for this reason that we are introducing an easy way to develop reusable connectors through REST Connect which will easily convert any well-defined RAML APIs (external SaaS services or internal APIs) to an a Connector with no coding. When an API(RAML) is added to Exchange 2.0, REST Connect will generate a connector behind the scene. Flow designer users will consume the API as a connector. In addition to supporting an easier consumption of APIs, REST Connecto also help API implementers, partner, and 3rd-party developers to quickly add additional features (i.e. custom authentications, dynamic metadata) to connectors generated by REST Connect
• #28: A critical requirement in these 2 steps is correctness and predictability, and to this end we are allowing you to parametrize your packaged applications without needing to make any modification to them, and we are also adding integration with a centralized repository of applications so you can deploy and rollback your application through your environments without adding complex coding to your CI/CD pipeline or making lots of manual steps. We also know that the quicker you can resolve problems in your running applications, the faster you will be able to restore the system stability, so we are adding visibility into flows behavior, license expiration date, and application and system uptimes, among other things that will help you with troubleshooting, governance and compliance. Promotion and Operate steps are also relevant to API Management, and we are adding some capabilities to expand the benefits of having a unified platform. With Resource, method-level and global policies you will have in-depth governance of your APIs throughout the deployment pipeline. With global policies, you will be able to apply polices at the organization, sub-organization and the environment level, and have policies be automatically applied to all the APIs in that group. With resource and method-level policies you will be able to enforce, for example, a traffic shaping policy at a particular resource of your API. We are also adding an automated health check of the proxy and the backend API, so you will instantaneously know if your proxy was configured correctly or not. APIs will move through several environments throughout the promote step of the connectivity development cycle, and we are facilitating the automation and manual promotion of APIs across them through the UI and Anypoint CLI, so and This same behavior will happen when you promote APIs in API Manager through the UI or CLI. All the URLs of the APIs will be automatically added to Exchange, so this will removing the need to add code in the deployment pipeline to keep all the assets in sync, accelerating the SDLC and user’s API platform experience.
• #29: A critical requirement in these 2 steps is correctness and predictability, and to this end we are allowing you to parametrize your packaged applications without needing to make any modification to them, and we are also adding integration with a centralized repository of applications so you can deploy and rollback your application through your environments without adding complex coding to your CI/CD pipeline or making lots of manual steps. We also know that the quicker you can resolve problems in your running applications, the faster you will be able to restore the system stability, so we are adding visibility into flows behavior, license expiration date, and application and system uptimes, among other things that will help you with troubleshooting, governance and compliance. Promotion and Operate steps are also relevant to API Management, and we are adding some capabilities to expand the benefits of having a unified platform. With Resource, method-level and global policies you will have in-depth governance of your APIs throughout the deployment pipeline. With global policies, you will be able to apply polices at the organization, sub-organization and the environment level, and have policies be automatically applied to all the APIs in that group. With resource and method-level policies you will be able to enforce, for example, a traffic shaping policy at a particular resource of your API. We are also adding an automated health check of the proxy and the backend API, so you will instantaneously know if your proxy was configured correctly or not. APIs will move through several environments throughout the promote step of the connectivity development cycle, and we are facilitating the automation and manual promotion of APIs across them through the UI and Anypoint CLI, so and This same behavior will happen when you promote APIs in API Manager through the UI or CLI. All the URLs of the APIs will be automatically added to Exchange, so this will removing the need to add code in the deployment pipeline to keep all the assets in sync, accelerating the SDLC and user’s API platform experience.
• #30: Extends value of CloudHub to any infrastructure Mule application deployment & control Zero downtime updates Worker scaling and healing Load balancing Runtime upgrade / patching Secrets management Built on Docker & Kubernetes Improved extensibility & resource management for CloudHub customers
• #32: Dedicated, built-in security Prevent attacks Validate, govern, balance, and route traffic Context of the flow
• #34: Layers of defense Dynamic network policies Edge policies (DoS, CAP) API Gateway policies Full Certificate management Enhanced AAA Data protection and security compliance Tokenization with format preserving encryption / decryption
• #35: Layers of defense Dynamic network policies Edge policies (DoS, CAP) API Gateway policies Full Certificate management Enhanced AAA Data protection and security compliance Tokenization with format preserving encryption / decryption
• #36: Layers of defense Dynamic network policies Edge policies (DoS, CAP) API Gateway policies Full Certificate management Enhanced AAA Data protection and security compliance Tokenization with format preserving encryption / decryption
• #38: Ops and business Actionable operational intelligence from connected applications Power application network insights Deep understanding of how applications are used One Enterprise grade analytics platform to handle large volume, high velocity, large variety data Unlock the value of data flowing through Anypoint platform for our customers and for MuleSoft Deep understanding of how our customers use our products What we are not building – Not a generic tool for other vendors, Demonstrate application network value Deep understanding of how runtime resources are operating Intelligence to better monitor and troubleshoot Powers all application network insights When you use our platform different types of data flow through our systems. Some of these are events generated within the runtime engine, some are API calls from both external and internal systems, then there are machine logs being generated, there are messages and asynchronous calls, batch processes and different types of actions and interactions on portals and exchanges. We live in a world where humongous amount of data is being generated. What if all these variety of data generated at high speed and in large volumes be collated at one place and make sense out of it all. What if we could in real time generate alerts as and when an anomaly is detected, what if the operator is notified just at the right time so that they can take the right corrective action and what if data flowing through the organization can be surfaced in the application network.  We are developing all this with our unified big data analytics stack that deliver actionable insights to the operator and surface situational awareness about the application network.