Raise your hand if you have more business needs that require integration solutions than time (and resources) to deliver them. In other words, the business is asking for integration solutions to be delivered at light speed! One tool available to us that can enable delivery of integration solutions at light speed is the MuleSoft Anypoint Flow Designer. In this session, we’re going to take a deep dive into Anypoint Flow Designer. We’ll explain what it does, what it doesn’t do, and where it can help you and your organization. Of course we’ll have a few demos. Who knows, we may even pull someone out of the audience to help demonstrate that it is indeed possible to deliver integration solutions at light speed!

1. Light Speed Integrations With Anypoint Flow Designer
February 13, 2020
Denver MuleSoft Meetup Group

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Agenda
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• 6:00PM – Doors Open
• 6:00PM – 6:30PM – Network, Eat, and Socialize
• 6:30PM – 7:30PM – Flow Designer Presentation and Demos
• 7:30PM – 7:45PM – Q&A
• 7:45PM – 8:00PM – Open Floor, Suggestions for Future Topics and
Speakers

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Introductions
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• About the organizer:
– Big Compass
• Tim Merkel
• Brian Statkevicus
• Aaron Liebermann
• Linda Gunn
A SHOW OF HANDS:
Who is new to this Meetup?

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The challenge…
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Flow Designer
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• What is Flow Designer?
• Citizen Integrator
• Use Cases for Flow Designer
• Flow Designer in your iPaaS SDLC
• Future of Flow Designer
• Conclusion

6. What is Flow Designer?

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What is Flow Designer?
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• Low-code, web-based
MuleSoft Application
Development tool
• Uses the concept of ‘cards’
to build a flow
• Follows the same concepts
of Anypoint Studio-
designed apps
• Developed in a Design
CloudHub Environment
• Can deploy to other
CloudHub environments

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Flow Designer
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9. Citizen Integrator

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What is a Citizen Integrator?
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• Gartner:
– A domain specialist, without a programming background, who can use tools (and
not code) to integrate and extend business software applications
– Although they might not have a programming background, they are technically
savvy.
– They understand the business (client needs, data requirements, and business
processes)
• Let’s bring up a Citizen Integrator from the audience to build a Flow
Designer application!

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It’s time to Pokemon!
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• What you will see:
– A Citizen Integrator will design an API GET endpoint and integrate this endpoint
to a Pokemon API endpoint
– A Citizen Integrator will use Flow Designer in said task
– A Citizen Integrator will deploy their Flow Designer application to CloudHub and
have Alexa invoke their Flow Designer Application to get Pokemon information
• What you won’t see:
– Creation of Alexa skills
http://pokemon-fd-test.gxnk.us-e1.cloudhub.io/pokemon-fd-test?name=pikachu
URL PATH Query Params

12. Use Cases

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Use Cases
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14. Flow Designer in your
iPaaS SDLC

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Flow Designer Limitations
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• Not available in MuleSoft Government Cloud (MuleSoft’s FedRAMP
Authorized version of Cloud Hub)
• Limited Core Components:
• B2B Use cases not (easily) supported
• Normal CloudHub environment limitations apply
• Manage your vCore count!

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Other considerations
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• API Lifecycle?
• CI/CD?
• Source code management?
• Applying API Manager Policies?
Time to engage your friendly neighborhood Integrations team! 

17. Future of Flow Designer

18. Conclusions

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Our thoughts
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• Flow Designer is ideally suited for no/little code, rapid point-to-point
application development…in other words, Light Speed Integrations!
• Citizen Integrators can be easily trained to leverage Flow Designer to
create simple, business related applications (especially when one
endpoint is a SaaS endpoint)
• For more robust integration solutions, you will need to leverage
Anypoint Studio

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What’s next
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• Share:
– Tweet your pictures with the hashtag #MuleMeetup
– Invite your network to join: https://meetups.mulesoft.com/denver/
• Feedback:
– Contact your organizer to suggest topics
– Contact MuleSoft at meetup@mulesoft.com for ways to improve the program
• Our next meetup:
– Date: Q2 CY 2020
– Location: Denver, CO
– Topic: TBD

21. See you next time!
Please send topic suggestions to the organizer