Course Prerequisites
To ensure you are well-prepared to take the Anypoint Platform: API Design course and gain the maximum benefit from its content, the following prerequisites are recommended:
- Basic understanding of web services and web APIs.
- Familiarity with data formats such as JSON and XML.
- Fundamental knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS protocol and its methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.).
- Awareness of the principles of REST and RESTful API design.
- An interest in API development and management.
While prior experience with API development or the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is helpful, it is not strictly necessary to begin this course. The curriculum is designed to guide you through the necessary concepts and practices involved in API design using the Anypoint Platform.
Target Audience for Anypoint Platform: API Design
The Anypoint Platform: API Design course offers a comprehensive dive into RESTful API design, aimed at professionals involved in the API development lifecycle.
- Software Developers and Engineers
- API Designers and Architects
- Integration Specialists
- Solution Architects
- IT Project Managers
- Technical Leads and Team Leaders
- DevOps Engineers
- IT Consultants
- System Integrators
- Application Developers
- MuleSoft Developers
- Product Managers with a technical background
- Technical Business Analysts
- Professionals looking to upskill in API design and management
- Technical Support Engineers
Learning Objectives - What you will Learn in this Anypoint Platform: API Design?
Introduction to the Course's Learning Outcomes and Concepts Covered
Gain proficiency in designing RESTful APIs using MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform, with a focus on API lifecycle, security, and best practices to create, document, and manage APIs effectively.
Learning Objectives and Outcomes
- Understand the differences between common web API formats such as SOAP, RPC, and REST, and grasp REST API architecture and principles.
- Translate functional requirements into API resources and actions, using HTTP methods appropriately.
- Describe and implement MuleSoft's API-led connectivity approach, navigating through the Anypoint Platform and understanding the API development lifecycle.
- Utilize RAML 1.0 for defining API resources, methods, URI parameters, and handle data modeling with datatype creation and examples.
- Specify HTTP response structures, status codes, error handling, caching, and content types for robust API design.
- Document APIs and test endpoints with the Anypoint Platform's tools like the mocking service and API Console.
- Enhance API discoverability through creating and customizing API Portals and publishing to Anypoint Exchange.
- Reuse patterns for API design efficiency by creating resource types and traits, and modularize APIs using libraries, overlays, and extensions.
- Implement API security by defining requirements, applying security schemes, and integrating with OAuth2.0 providers.
- Manage API versions effectively, learning when to version APIs, how to document changes, and deprecate older API versions.
Target Audience for Anypoint Platform: API Design
The Anypoint Platform: API Design course offers a comprehensive dive into RESTful API design, aimed at professionals involved in the API development lifecycle.
- Software Developers and Engineers
- API Designers and Architects
- Integration Specialists
- Solution Architects
- IT Project Managers
- Technical Leads and Team Leaders
- DevOps Engineers
- IT Consultants
- System Integrators
- Application Developers
- MuleSoft Developers
- Product Managers with a technical background
- Technical Business Analysts
- Professionals looking to upskill in API design and management
- Technical Support Engineers
Learning Objectives - What you will Learn in this Anypoint Platform: API Design?
Introduction to the Course's Learning Outcomes and Concepts Covered
Gain proficiency in designing RESTful APIs using MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform, with a focus on API lifecycle, security, and best practices to create, document, and manage APIs effectively.
Learning Objectives and Outcomes
- Understand the differences between common web API formats such as SOAP, RPC, and REST, and grasp REST API architecture and principles.
- Translate functional requirements into API resources and actions, using HTTP methods appropriately.
- Describe and implement MuleSoft's API-led connectivity approach, navigating through the Anypoint Platform and understanding the API development lifecycle.
- Utilize RAML 1.0 for defining API resources, methods, URI parameters, and handle data modeling with datatype creation and examples.
- Specify HTTP response structures, status codes, error handling, caching, and content types for robust API design.
- Document APIs and test endpoints with the Anypoint Platform's tools like the mocking service and API Console.
- Enhance API discoverability through creating and customizing API Portals and publishing to Anypoint Exchange.
- Reuse patterns for API design efficiency by creating resource types and traits, and modularize APIs using libraries, overlays, and extensions.
- Implement API security by defining requirements, applying security schemes, and integrating with OAuth2.0 providers.
- Manage API versions effectively, learning when to version APIs, how to document changes, and deprecate older API versions.