Delivery:  ~ December 2018

This release is to implement additional features in the security and manageability roadmap, improve performance and establish the certifiaction program within the EdgeX project for "EdgeX-compliant" may address more real time concerns while also providing a certification program for drop-in micro service replacements.  The release will also look at EdgeX in a wider context use - with instances spread across a fog deployment.

Proposed Release Tasks and Notes (DRAFT)

• Ongoing performance improvements
• Implementation of a message bus alternative for intercommunication between microservices as an alternative to REST
• Implementation of Core Services and Device Service SDK in C to support deterministic real time use cases
• Certification process for EdgeX-compliant microservices to enable a plug-and-play ecosystem 
  
  • Validate a replacement microservice satisfies key APIs
  • Validate a replacement microservice conforms to adopted deployment/delivery facilities
  • …
• Facilitate East/West capability
  • Microservice load balancing, failover, scale-over, ...
  • Device from EdgeX A triggers action on device on EdgeX B
• Address data privacy concerns
  • EU laws and affirmation about data use/storage/etc.
  • HIP-A