SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON, Oct. 10,
2019 /PRNewswire/ -- MuleSoft, provider of the leading
platform for building application networks, today announced
Anypoint Service Mesh, a new solution that dramatically simplifies
how companies can discover, manage and secure microservices.
Anypoint Service Mesh brings security and reliability to any
microservices-based application, regardless of language or
deployment model, freeing developers from custom code. Customers
can also now publish and discover microservices in a marketplace,
allowing developers across an organization to find and reuse them
while IT maintains security and control. With this major new
release of Anypoint Platform™, companies can now fully realize the
benefit of microservices to innovate faster, deliver differentiated
customer experiences and increase operational efficiency.
The rise of microservices
Microservices are a way to
rapidly build new customer experiences by exposing data and
functionality as a collection of loosely coupled services – the
value comes from bringing together various microservices to solve
business needs. With microservices, organizations can quickly adapt
to changing customer requests and demands, as well as offer
services that create a competitive edge.
However, as more and more microservices are built and organized
around business capabilities, organizations end up with complex
environments that can be costly and difficult to operate. Loosely
coupled services require understanding the dependencies between
services in order to minimize the pain and effort of making changes
later. Making changes, whether for functional or security or
scalability reasons, requires rewiring a set of dependent services
and applications, causing errors, unexpected side effects and
slowdowns. That is on top of the increasing need to secure this
maze of dependencies. This complexity can stifle innovation,
negating the very promise of microservices.
Anypoint Service Mesh: extending an API-led approach to
microservices architectures
Organizations can only realize
the benefits of a microservices architecture by eliminating the
custom code and complexity that comes from managing all of these
disparate services. Developers also need to be able to find and
reuse microservices created by other teams – breaking down these
silos unlocks the true promise of speed, agility and flexibility
from microservices.
As applications are increasingly distributed and containerized,
a service mesh is a critical piece of a microservices
infrastructure, increasing application resiliency and security.
However, a service mesh does not solve all challenges in the
microservices lifecycle on its own. Organizations still need a way
to easily publish and reuse microservices across teams.
Furthermore, a service mesh only provides these benefits to the set
of microservices within a specific deployment. Organizations need a
way to centrally view and govern all their services, regardless of
language or deployment model.
MuleSoft helps organizations gain the maximum value from this
architecture by bringing API-led connectivity to microservices. An
API-led approach enables organizations to unlock the value of their
existing services with APIs and innovate rapidly, while maintaining
security and control of critical enterprise data or processes. It
provides the blueprint for delivering an agile operating model and
building organization-wide reuse and discovery through an
application network. It fundamentally increases speed and agility
for companies to deliver new competitive advantage. When this
approach is applied consistently across a distributed microservices
architecture, organizations can accelerate innovation by fully
unlocking the value of any microservices-based application.
By extending Anypoint Platform to any microservice with Istio, a
leading open source service mesh framework, Anypoint Service Mesh
brings the tenets of discoverability, management and security to
microservices by making them pluggable into an application network.
Through Anypoint Platform's single control plane, customers can
now:
- Discover what microservices are available and how they work
together
- Visualize microservice dependencies using the application
network graph
- Maximize adoption and reuse by adding microservices to Anypoint
Exchange
- Centrally manage and scale microservice architectures
- Ensure resiliency across services with Istio traffic control
policies
- Measure and optimize performance across all microservices with
API analytics
- Enable security by default
- Implement mutual TLS for all traffic with Istio and Envoy
policies to build a zero-trust network
- Automatically enforce access controls on microservices exposed
outside the service mesh
Comments on the news
- "Our customer expectations are quickly evolving, so IQVIA
Technologies uses microservices to increase our speed and agility
for a better customer experience," said Tal
Rosenberg, senior vice president of Global Technology
Solutions, IQVIA. "As part of the IQVIA application network and
with MuleSoft's latest release, our microservices increase
developer productivity to bring the most cutting-edge solutions to
the market faster."
- "Many companies are jumping into microservice-based
architectures at full cloud speed, however, there is not nearly
enough thought, debate and action being taken to ensure their
microservices don't become tomorrow's point-to-point code in the
cloud," said Chris Purpura, managing
director, Deloitte Consulting LLP. "Service mesh will be an
important part of how we help companies build for the future. As
part of our alliance with MuleSoft, we are helping our joint
customers to be nimble in response to customer demands and make the
right people, process, and technology choices on their digital
transformation journey."
- "Microservices exhibit many of the same patterns as we see in
the application network," said Mark
Dao, chief product officer, MuleSoft. "When we extend the
application network to include microservices, we are making these
services easily discoverable and reusable. Developers now have the
freedom to build great applications while IT maintains security and
control. With this release, we continue to extend our vision for
the application network, empowering companies to get a unified view
of their services across the entire enterprise."
Additional information
- Learn more about the latest release of Anypoint Platform:
https://www.mulesoft.com/platform/new-product-features
- Attend an upcoming webinar for a deep dive on the new features,
which will be generally available in Q4 of this fiscal year:
https://www.mulesoft.com/webinars/api/anypoint-platform-release
About Anypoint Platform
MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform™
is a leading application network platform. It allows organizations
to create composite applications that connect apps, data, and
devices through API-led connectivity to form a flexible application
network. Anypoint Platform is a unified, single solution for iPaaS
and full lifecycle API management, both on-premises and in the
cloud.
About MuleSoft, a Salesforce company
MuleSoft's
mission is to help organizations change and innovate faster by
making it easy to connect the world's applications, data
and devices. With its API-led approach to connectivity,
MuleSoft's market-leading Anypoint Platform™ empowers thousands of
organizations to build application networks. By unlocking data
across the enterprise with application networks, organizations can
easily deliver new revenue channels, increase operational
efficiency and create differentiated customer experiences. For more
information, visit https://www.mulesoft.com.
About Salesforce
Salesforce is the global leader in
Customer Relationship Management (CRM), bringing companies closer
to their customers in the digital age. Founded in 1999, Salesforce
enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of
powerful technologies—cloud, mobile, social, internet of things,
artificial intelligence, voice and blockchain—to create a
360-degree view of their customers. For more information about
Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), visit: www.salesforce.com.
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