Architecting the Modern Enterprise Training

Chapter 1. Enterprise Architecture (EA) Primer

•    Architecture
•    Architects
•    Enterprise Architecture Definitions
•    IEEE, TOGAF, & MIT Perspectives
•    Enterprise Architecture Defined
•    Architecture Framework: Foundation for a Common Vocabulary
•    Industry EA Frameworks
•    Dimensions of Architecture Scope
•    Architecture Domains
•    Time: Baseline, Target, and Transition Architectures
•    Various Solution Architecture Definitions
•    Characteristics of a Solution Architecture
•    Example Solution Architecture: SOA for Insurance
•    Solution Architecture Context
•    Solution Architecture & Domains
•    SA Spans All Domains
•    Relationship to EA Architecture Development Process
•    Solution Architecture
•    Solution Architecture Deliverables
•    EA Involvement in SA
•    Architecturally Significant
•    Summary

Chapter 2. Challenges with Traditional Architecture

•    The Need for Senior Management Support
•    Business People Underestimate the Complexity
•    Role Clarity
•    Governance
•    Variables Outside Architecture's Control
•    Analysis Paralysis
•    Architecture Dismissed by Agile Teams
•    Scarce Resources
•    The Challenge of Alignment
•    Rogue IT
•    There's No ROI in Infrastructure
•    Summary

Chapter 3. What is Agile?

•    Development Methodologies of the ‘80’s and ‘90’s
•    Enterprise Architecture
•    Problems with this Approach
•    Unified Process
•    The Manifesto for Agile Development
•    Don't Misinterpret...
•    Agile Principles: (1 of 3)
•    Agile Principles: (2 of 3)
•    Agile Principles (3 of 3)
•    Role of a Methodology in Agile
•    Agile Methodologies
•    Scrum
•    Artifact: Product Backlog
•    Artifact: Sprint Backlog
•    Artifact: Product Increment
•    Artifact: Burndown Charts
•    Activity: Sprints
•    Activity: Sprint Planning
•    Activity: Daily Scrum
•    Activities: Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective
•    Kanban
•    XP Practices (1 of 2)
•    XP Practices (2 of 2)
•    Summary

Chapter 4. Challenges With Agile

•    Business' Need for Predictability
•    Shortsightedness
•    Forest and Trees
•    Difficulties with Securing a Team Member from the Business
•    The Cycle of Formalization
•    Integration Challenges
•    Operations Team Seen as a Blocker
•    Reinventing Standards
•    Possible Security Issues
•    Bias to Build over Buy
•    Team Member Criticality
•    Agile Team Member Qualifications
•    Difficulties Acquiring Proper Support
•    Summary

Chapter 5. The Agile-Architecture Conflict

•    The Two Perspectives
•    Class Discussion
•    Summary

Chapter 6. How Architecture Fits in with Agile

•    Common Ground
•    Building High Quality Systems
•    Solutions of Value
•    Rapid Delivery
•    Maintaining Systems Reliability
•    Design
•    Reuse
•    Discipline
•    Measurement
•    The Core Differences
•    How is Agile Even Possible?
•    Open Source
•    Code Control and Versioning
•    Test Driven Development (TDD)
•    Continuous Delivery Automation
•    Stack Overflow
•    Twitter and GitHub
•    What Does Architecture Produce That an Agile Team Needs?
•    What Should Architecture Provide to an Agile Team?

Chapter 7 Where Agile and Architecture Connect

•    The Most Popular Frameworks
•    The Zachman Framework
•    IASA
•    The Open Group Architecture Framework
•    TOGAF's Scope
•    Which Architecture Principles are Non-Agile?
•    Which Business Principles? [2/1]
•    Which Business Principles? [2/2]
•    Which Data Principles?
•    Which Application Principles?
•    Which Technology Principles?
•    TOGAF's Architecture Development Method
•    Development Activities in TOGAF
•    Activities TOGAF Addresses that SDLC's Usually Don't
•    Requirements Gathering in TOGAF
•    Discussion
•    Key TOGAF Deliverables
•    Discussion
•    Roles
•    Discussion

Chapter 8 Is There Agile Architecture?

•    What is Agile Architecture: Definition 1
•    Agile Architecture: Definition 2
•    Which Definition is Correct?
•    What is the Problem We're Trying to Solve Again?
•    Prioritization
•    Integration
•    What About How the Environment Has Changed?
•    So What to Do?
•    Can Architecture Be Sprinted?
•    Goals of Agile Architecture
•    Benefits
•    Agile Architecture at Work
•    Agile Architecture for Agile Software Projects
•    Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
•    Agile Architecture Up Front (ADUF)
•    Agile Architecture for Software
•    Agile Architecture Research
•    Agile Architecture Research Example 1
•    Agile Architecture Research Example 2
•    Agile Architecture Research Example 3
•    Agile Architecture as an EA Practice
•    Agile Architecture in the Industry
•    Agile Architecture for EA Conclusion
 

Chapter 9 Towards Agile Architecture

•    Pulling Together the Best of All of the Leading Practices
•    Enterprise Architecture [1/2]
•    Enterprise Architecture [2/2]
•    Solution Architecture
•    Agile
•    Portfolio, Program and Project Management
•    Enterprise Packaged Software
•    Open Source
•    Cloud and SaaS
•    Continuous Integration
•    So How Does This All Come Together?
•    Modeling
•    Reference Architecture
•    Organization and Governance
•    Requirements Gathering
•    Requirements Management
•    Portfolio Management
•    Deliverables
•    Architectural Compliance
•    Education
•    Stakeholder Management and Communication

DISCUSSION Architecture and Agile

Workshop/discussion to close the agile architecture theme.
-    Agile and waterfall
-    Experiences and challenges
-    Share what has been working
 

Chapter 10. Defining the Cloud

•    A Bit of History
•    Wikipedia Entry
•    Cloud Computing at a Glance
•    Gartner Research on Cloud
•    Electrical Power Grid Service Analogy
•    The NIST Perspective
•    Five Characteristics
•    On-demand Self-Service (NIST Characteristic)
•    Broad Network Access (NIST Characteristic)
•    Resource Pooling (NIST Characteristic)
•    Rapid Elasticity (NIST Characteristic)
•    Measured Service (NIST Characteristic)
•    The Three Cloud Service Models (NIST)
•    The Cloud Computing Spectrum: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
•    The Four Cloud Deployment Models (NIST)
•    The NIST Cloud Definition Framework
•    A Hybrid Cloud Diagram
•    Cloud Deployment Model Dynamics
 

Chapter 11. Cloud Services

•    Defining Cloud Services
•    User-Cloud Interaction
•    Cloud Service Characteristics
•    The Typical Cloud Services
•    Application Services
•    Messaging Application Service
•    Email Application Service
•    Cache Application Service
•    Specialized Application Services
•    AWS Analytics Systems
•    Google App Engine (GAE) MapReduce Service - #DELETE
•    Use Cases for MapReduce Jobs
•    Integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS)
•    Storage Services
•    Object Storage
•    Archive Storage
•    Relational Storage
•    NoSQL Storage
•    Some AWS Storage Services
•    Data Warehouses in the Cloud
•    Cloud Utility Services
•    Scalability and HA of Your Applications in the Cloud
•    The Auto-scaling Service
•    Monitoring Services
•    Configuring Instance Health Check in AWS - #DELETE
•    Amazon Web Services Integration Diagram
•    Google App Engine (GAE) Services Integration Diagram
•    Microsoft Azure Services
•    Comparing Cloud Service Stacks

 Chapter 12. Introduction to NoSQL

•    The V3 Properties Limitations of Relational Databases
•    Limitations of Relational Databases (Cont'd)
•    What are NoSQL (Not Only SQL) Databases?
•    What are NoSQL Databases?
•    The Past and Present of the NoSQL World
•    NoSQL Database Properties
•    NoSQL Benefits
•    Use Cases for NoSQL Database Systems
•    NoSQL Database Storage Types
•    The CAP Theorem
•    Mechanisms to Guarantee a Single CAP Property
•    NoSQL Systems CAP Triangle
•    Limitations of NoSQL Databases
•    Mix-and-Match Approach
•    Big Data Sharding
•    Sharding Example
•    Google BigTable
•    BigTable-based Applications
•    BigTable Design  
•    Barriers to Adoption
•    Dismantling Barriers to Adoption
•    Industry trends
•    Summary

 Chapter 13. Designing Cloud Solutions

•    Getting Started …
•    "Good/Not-so-Good" Use Cases for the Cloud
•    Design the Cloud Service Interface
•    Practical Observations and Rules
•    Analysis and Design (A&D) Best Practices
•    A&D Best Practices - Prototyping
•    A&D Best Practices – System Partitioning
•    A&D Best Practices - Leveraging Cloud Platform Services
•    A&D Best Practices -
•    Using Asynchronous Communication Patterns
•    MOM to the Rescue
•    A&D Best Practices - Preempt Possible Data Corruption
•    A&D Best Practices -
•    Caching
•    A&D Best Practices - Staying Hands-On
•    Be Aware of the CAP Theorem Constraints
•    The CAP Triangle
•    Cloud Layering
•    Cloud Layering Overview
•    Content Services
•    Separate Static Content from Dynamic Content
•    Logic Services
•    Utility - Security Services
•    Out-of-the-Box Security Service Example
•    Layering Example – 1/5
•    Layering Example – 2/5
•    Layering Example – 3/5
•    Layering Example – 4/5
•    Layering Example – 5/5
•    Architecting for HA in AWS (Same Data Center)
•    Architecting for HA in AWS (Different AZs)

 Chapter 14. AWS Solution Architecture Patterns

•    AWS Architecture Center
•    List of Reference Architectures
•    High Availability Solution Architecture Blueprint
•    Log Analysis Solution Architecture Blueprint Summary
•    Scalable Web App Solution Architecture Blueprint Summary
•    Simplified Web App Solution Architecture Blueprint
•    Architecting for AWS: Design for Failure - Take 1
•    Architecting for AWS: Design for Failure - Take 2
•    Go with SOA and Asynchronous Communication Patterns
•    Batch Processing with SQS
•    Secure Your Applications
•    Securing your Web Application Example
•    Other Security Considerations
•    Operational Checklists for AWS
•    Excerpts from Operational Checklists
 
DISCUSSION Cloud at your organization
Workshop/discussion to close the architecture for cloud module.
-    Current state, direction
-    Cloud vs on-prem (or cloud and on-prem)
-    Share experiences

Chapter 15. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Data Patterns

•    SOA Data Service Patterns
•    Pattern Template
•    Data Federation Pattern: Synopsis
•    Data Federation Pattern: Benefits
•    Data Federation Pattern: Context
•    Data Federation Pattern: Solution
•    Data Federation Pattern: Solution Architecture
•    Data Federation Pattern: Considerations
•    Data Federation Pattern: Summary
•    Data Consolidation Pattern: Synopsis
•    Data Consolidation Pattern: Benefits
•    Data Consolidation Pattern: Context
•    Data Consolidation Pattern: Solution
•    Data Consolidation Pattern: Considerations
•    Data Consolidation Pattern: Summary
•    Data Cleansing Pattern: Synopsis
•    Data Cleansing Pattern: Benefits
•    Data Cleansing Pattern: Context
•    Data Cleansing Pattern: Solution
•    Data Cleansing Pattern: Considerations
•    Data Cleansing Pattern: Summary

Chapter 16. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

•    SOA and the ESB Pattern
•    Loose Coupling
•    Service Invocation
•    Business Process
•    Data Integration
•    Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
•    Legacy System Integration
•    Unsupported Protocol
•    The Role of ESB in SOA
•    ESB: Software Artifacts
•    ESB: Software Artifacts
•    Business Process
•    Business Process: Example
•    Minimum ESB Capabilities
•    Minimum ESB Capabilities: Integration
•    Minimum ESB Capabilities: Communication
•    Minimum ESB Capabilities: Service Interaction
•    Minimum ESB Capabilities: Management
•    Security and ESB
 

Chapter 17. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Patterns

•    SOA Patterns
•    Asynchronous Queuing Pattern: Problem
•    Asynchronous Queuing Pattern: Solution
•    Asynchronous Queuing Pattern: Implementation
•    Asynchronous Queuing Pattern: Illustration
•    Event-Driven Messaging Pattern: Problem & Solution
•    Event-Driven Messaging Pattern: Implementation
•    Event-Driven Messaging Pattern: Illustration
•    Reliable Messaging Pattern: Problem & Solution
•    Reliable Messaging Pattern: Implementation
•    Reliable Messaging Pattern: Illustration
•    Adapter Pattern: Problem & Solution
•    Adapter Pattern: Implementation
•    Adapter Pattern: Illustration
•    Canonical Protocol Pattern: Problem & Solution
•    Canonical Protocol Pattern: Implementation
•    Canonical Protocol Pattern: Illustration
•    Protocol Bridging Pattern: Problem
•    Protocol Bridging Pattern: Implementation
•    Protocol Bridging Pattern: Illustration
•    Canonical Data Format Pattern: Problem & Solution
•    Canonical Data Format Pattern: Implementation
•    Canonical Data Format: Illustration
•    Data Transformation Pattern: Problem & Solution
•    Data Transformation Pattern: Implementation
•    Data Transformation: Illustration
•    Schema Centralization Pattern: Problem
•    Schema Centralization Pattern: Solution
•    Schema Centralization Pattern: Implementation
•    Schema Centralization: Illustration
•    Intermediate Routing Pattern: Problem
•    Intermediate Routing Pattern: Solution
•    Intermediate Routing Pattern: Implementation
•    Intermediate Routing: Illustration
•    Decoupled Contract Pattern: Problem & Solution
•    Decoupled Contract Pattern: Implementation
•    Decoupled Contract Pattern: Illustration
•    Decoupled Contract Pattern: Another Illustration
•    Service Encapsulation Pattern: Problem & Solution
•    Service Encapsulation Pattern: Implementation
•    Service Encapsulation Pattern: Illustration
•    Service Decomposition Pattern: Problem & Solution
•    Service Decomposition Pattern: Implementation
•    Service Decomposition Pattern: Illustration

Chapter 18. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Patterns

•    Enterprise Integration Patterns
•    EAI Patterns Summary
•    Messaging Systems: Overview
•    Pattern: Pipes and Filters
•    Root Pattern: Message Channel
•    Root Pattern: Message
•    Root Pattern: Message Router
 
•    Root Pattern: Message Translator
•    Root Pattern: Message Endpoint
•    Root Pattern: System Management
•    Monitoring Credit Bureau Example

Chapter 19. Master Data Management (MDM)

•    What is Master Data Management?
•    A typical data management scenario
•    Why do you need MDM? (1 of 2)
•    Why do you need MDM? (2 of 2)
•    Why do you need MDM in SOA? (1 of 2)
•    Why do you need MDM in SOA? (2 of 2)
•    What role does MDM play in SOA?
•    MDM and SOA shared principles
•    MDM and SOA Governance
•    MDM products
•    Implementing MDM in an SOA (1 of 3)
•    Implementing MDM in an SOA (2 of 3)
•    Implementing MDM in an SOA (3 of 3)
•    Review questions

Chapter 20. EA Lessons Learned and Anti-Patterns

•    Key EA Lessons Learned
•    Three Critical Changes EA Must Make To Survive Hard Times
•    Scott Ambler’s EA Anti-Patterns
•    EA Anti-Patterns

Chapter 21. API Management

•    Drivers Towards Business Inter-connectivity
•    View of the NetBeans IDE Web Services Facet
•    Facebook Graph API Explorer
•    APIs Proliferation
•    API Management Defined
•    API Management Disclaimers
•    The Traditional Point-to-point Integration Example
•    It Raises Some Questions …
•    API Management Conceptual Diagram
•    What Else is Needed?
•    Driving Forces
•    Gartner Research Stats
•    API Management Offerings
•    The Mashery API Management System Overview
•    WSO2 API Management Main Components

Chapter 22. Introduction to Kafka

•   What is Kafka?
•   Need for Kafka
•   Where is Kafka useful?
•   Architecture
•   Core concepts in Kafka
•   Overview of ZooKeeper
•   Cluster, Nodes, Kafka Brokers
•   Consumers, Producers, Logs, Partitions, Records, Keys
•   Kafka Streams
•   Kafka Connectors
•   Kafka REST
•   Summary

Chapter 23 Microservices

•    What is a "Microservice"?
•    SOA - Microservices Relationship
•    ESB - Microservices Relationship
•    One Helpful Analogy
•    The Driving Forces Behind Microservices
•    How Can Microservices Help You?
•    The Microservices Architecture
•    Utility Microservices at AWS
•    Microservices Inter-connectivity
•    The Data Exchange Interoperability Consideration
•    Managing Microservices
•    Implementing Microservices
•    Embedding Databases in Java
•    Microservice-Oriented Application Frameworks and Platforms

Chapter 24 Microservices with Node.js (overview)

•    What is Node.js?
•    Node's Value Proposition
•    Example of a Node.js App: a Simple Web Server
•    Node.js Project Types
•    Managing Large Applications
•    Core Modules
•    Why Node.js uses JavaScript?
•    The Traditional Concurrency Support Model
•    Disadvantages of the Traditional Approach
•    Event-Driven, Non-Blocking I/O
•    The Success Callback Function
•    Using Node Package Manager (NPM)
•    NPM Registry (Repository)
•    NPM Enterprise
•    Package Life-Cycle Management
•    Local and Global Package Installation Options
•    Listing and Using Module Versions
•    The Express Package
•    Installing and Using Express
•    Defining Routing Rules in Express
•    Route Path
 
•    The Response Object
•    A Simple Web Service with Express Example
•    The MEAN Stack

 Chapter 25 Comprehensive Introduction to AngularJS

Key concepts and why it matters a lot in modern web architecture. MVC, Controller, data binding, etc. Would be good to talk about comparisons to other front-end technologies, e.g. React, Node, etc.

•    What is AngularJS?
•    Why AngularJS?
•    How AngularJS Works
•    MVC with AngularJS
•    AngularJS MVC in a Nutshell
•    Scope and Goal of AngularJS
•    One-way (Traditional) Data Binding
•    Two-way Data Binding (the AngularJS Way)
•    A Very Simple AngularJS Application
•    Building Blocks of an AngularJS Application
•    Use of Model View Controller (MVC) Pattern
•    A Simple MVC Application
•    The View
•    The Controller
•    Data Binding
•    Dependency Injection (DI) in a Nutshell
•    DI in AngularJS
•    Other Client Side MVC Frameworks

DISCUSSION Microservices
(Especially - what are good uses cases for Microservices, and when are Microservices not appropriate?)

 Chapter 26 Docker Introduction

** Look at follow on chapters to provide more coverage of Docker from course WA2675.

•    What is Docker
•    Where Can I Ran Docker?
•    Docker and Containerization on Linux
•    Linux Kernel Features: cgroups and namespaces
•    The Docker-Linux Kernel Interfaces
•    Docker Containers vs Traditional Virtualization
•    Docker as Platform-as-a-Service
•    Docker Integration
•    Docker Services
•    Docker Application Container Public Repository
•    Competing Systems
•    Docker Command-line
•    Starting, Inspecting, and Stopping Docker Containers
 

Chapter 27 Introduction to Kubernetes

Consider whether this is something to augment Docker

•    What is Kubernetes
•    What is a Container
•    Container –Uses
•    Container – Pros
•    Container – Cons
•    Composition of a Container
•    Control Groups
•    Namespaces
•    Union Filesystems
•    Popular Containerization Software
•    Microservices
•    Microservices and Containers / Clusters
•    Microservices and Orchestration
•    Microservices and Infrastructure-as-Code
•    Kubernetes Container Networking
•    Kubernetes Networking Options
•    Kubernetes Networking – Balanced Design
•    Summary

Chapter 28 Kubernetes – From the Firehose

•    What is Kubernetes?
•    Container Orchestration
•    Kubernetes Basic Architecture
•    Kubernetes Detailed Architecture
•    Kubernetes Concepts
•    Cluster and Namespace
•    Node
•    Master
•    Pod
•    Label
•    Annotation
•    Label Selector
•    Replication Controller and Replica Set
•    Service
•    Storage Volume
•    Secret
•    Resource Quota
•    Authentication and Authorization
•    Routing
•    Registry
•    Using Docker Registry
•    Summary


DISCUSSION

Chapter 29. REST Services

•    Many Flavors of Services
•    Understanding REST
•    Principles of RESTful Services
•    REST Example – Create
•    REST Example – Retrieve
•    REST Example – Update
•    REST Example – Delete
•    REST Example – Client Generated ID
•    SOAP Equivalent Examples
•    REST Example – JSON
•    REST vs SOAP Communication
•    More REST vs SOAP
•    REST vs SOAP Summary
•    Famous RESTful Services
•    Additional Resources

Chapter 30. Designing a RESTful Service

•    Introduction
•    The Design Methodology
•    Ingredients of a Service Operation Interface
•    What Constitutes a REST Resource
•    Resource Identifiers
•    MIME Types
•    HTTP Methods
•    Request and Response Body Structure
•    Example Operation Interface Document
•    Formal (Machine-Readable) Specifications
•    Formal (Machine-Readable) Specifications (cont'd)

DISCUSSION