Building Integrations with MuleSoft

This concise yet comprehensive guide shows developers and architects how to tackle data integration challenges with MuleSoft. Authors Pooja Kamath and Diane Kesler take you through the process necessary to build robust and scalable integration solutions step-by-step.

Supported by real-world use cases, Building Integrations with MuleSoft teaches you to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, handle errors, and ensure the reliability and scalability of your integration solutions. You’ll explore MuleSoft’s robust set of connectors and their components, and use them to connect to systems and applications from legacy databases to cloud services.

• Ask the right questions to determine your use case, define requirements, decide on reuse versus rebuild, and create sequence and context diagrams
• Master tools like the Anypoint Platform, Anypoint Studio, Code Builder, GitHub, and Maven
• Design APIs with RAML and OAS and craft effective requests and responses
• Write MUnit tests, validate DataWeave expressions, and use Postman Collections
• Deploy Mule applications to CloudHub, use API Manager to create API proxies, and secure APIs with Mule OAuth 2.0
• Learn message orchestration techniques for routers, transactions, error handling, For Each, Parallel For Each, and batch processing

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The World of Integrations

Chapter 2. Prototyping APls

Chapter 3. Designing and Publishing APls

Chapter 4. Build Essentials

Chapter 5. Mechanics of Message Orchestration

Chapter 6. AsyncAPI

Chapter 7. Events and Storage

Chapter 8. DataWeave: The Language of Integration

Chapter 9. Testing

Chapter 10. Deployment

About the Authors

Pooja Kamath excels at integrating employee and customer insights to drive collaborative success. As president and chief architect of API Insights in Houston, she leads innovative software integration solutions for the travel and transportation industry, establishing the firm as a trusted partner. Her extensive experience includes resolving complex integration challenges and delivering multi-million-dollar MuleSoft projects. Holding a master’s in computer science, Pooja leverages her deep technical understanding to advise on and improve integration practices. She actively shares her knowledge through insightful blog posts and presentations at international technology conferences, including Salesforce Dreamforce, focusing on integration and customer experience. Her significant contributions to the MuleSoft community have earned her the distinction of being a three-time MuleSoft Ambassador (2023-2025), recognizing her expertise and dedication to the field.

Diane Kesler is the CEO of Integration Quest and a MuleSoft certified instructor. She has over 20 years of IT industry experience, spanning implementations, software development, and project management. In addition to her roles as a MuleSoft Exam Developer and Meetup Leader for several user groups, Diane was recognized for her work as a top MuleSoft Community Ambassador in 2022.