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• A base service class is needed for all microservices (the base class could potentially include security and sys management APIs)
• Dynamic configuration change callbacks for all microservices
• Implement Device Manager capability (versus Device)
• Dependency microservice retries and retry policies for service-to-service communications
• More unit, integration, system tests are needed for most microservices
• DevOps (builds, containerization, code reviews, etc.)

Core

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Platform and Performance 

• Alternative code implementations (e.g. Go Lang, C) to reduce footprint, improve boot times and increase data throughput
  • Goal: deployment of full baseline EdgeX platform in <256 MB memory utilization (ultimate footprint dependent on # of deployed microservices required of use case) 
• Extensions for embedding Device Services on constrained sensors and utilizing EdgeX with RTOS.  
  • Goal: <10MB with <10ms response times
• High-performance messaging bus for intercommunication between microservices on the host device plus between EdgeX and other systems
• Facilitate East-West capability between EdgeX-enabled nodes
  • Scaling, load balancing, failover, redundacy, etc. across EdgeX instances
  • Clustering of EdgeX node management
• Facilitate North-South capability
  • Gateway (EdgeX) Device Service
  • Gateway (EdgeX) to Gateway (EdgeX) export
• Additional reference implementations of Device Services for common protocols (OPC-UA, CAN bus, OCF, LoRa, ZigBee, etc.)
• Addiitonal reference connectors for backend appllications (Watson, SAP HANA, etc.)
• Export Services SDK-like facility to allow for
  
  • Additional transformations
  • Additional filtering
  • Alternate encryption and compress routines
  • Address other protocol endpoints (AMPQ, DDS, ...)
• Device Service and Device Service SDK improvements
  • Refactor/simplify the SDK
  • Provide more code examples for other protocols (Zigbee, Zwave, ...)
  • Better-together with standards (OPC-UA, OCF, etc.)
  • Connectivity to other open source IoT platforms/systems (Kura, IoTivity, ...)
  • Alternate language support (C/C++, Python, Go,...)
• Local and remote console user interfaces

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• Management of EdgeX supporting software
  • Install/uninstall, start/stop & configure databases
  • Install/uninstall, start/stop & configure message brokers/message systems
  • Base service implementation in all microservices
  • Defines interface and API hooks for start, stop, restart, etc. of services
• Microservice Registry Ties to System Management
  • Start Service
  • Stop Service
  • Know service responsive, performance
  • Install/uninstall service
  • Update service (provide rollback in some cases)
• Manage configuration (add, update, delete)
  • Define the port a service runs on
  • Seed service data (example:  Addressable for device services)
  • Notify services of other service state changes
  • Store/understand/manage micro service dependency information (example: point all services to new security service provider)
  • Manage blacklist services (turn off a service for maintenance, etc.)
  • Assist device services provision/remove new devices
  • Discover new devices being connected
• User interface to provide administration
  • Plug into 3rd-party commercial management consoles (VMware Pulse, System Center, etc.)
  • Build "single pane of glass" apparatus for managing of EdgeX across multiple platform instances

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Quality Assurance 

• More and improved microservice unit tests
• Checkin/code review procedures
• Test plans/test cases
• Integration tests (service to service)
• Performance testing
• Scalability testing
• Soak testing
• Platform/OS testing
• Release management schedule and procedures
• Automated build, test and release process as part of standard DevOps

Market/Business Needs

• Development of extensions for specific verticals and use cases
• Collaboration with consortium on test beds (IIC, OpenFog, etc.)
• Collaboration with other open source projects (CFF, OCI, CNCF, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Collaboration with SDOs for better together functionality
• Support for Multimulti-tenancyPay, pay-for-services model built-in (IoTaaS)

Quality Assurance Procedures

• More and improved microservice unit tests
• Checkin/code review procedures
• Test plans/test cases
• Integration tests (service to service)
• Performance testing
• Scalability testing
• Soak testing
• Platform/OS testing
• Release management schedule and procedures
• Automated build, test and release process as part of standard DevOps, etc.

Educational Assistance

• Create deeper Deeper documentation - especially around "Getting Started"
• Provide example code (device servicesDevice Services, exportExport, service replacement, ...)
• Videos
  • What it does
  • How it works
• Conference participation and presentation
• Forum/Blogging and other social media contributions and announcements
• Hackathons

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