EdgeX Foundry held a series of Tech Talks / Educational Technical Spin Up Calls hosted by Jim White, Dell and Tyler Cox, Dell

• Calls were recorded and posted to this Wiki page (along with any presentation material)

Additional resources to learn more

• EdgeX Foundry Rocket.Chat: https://chat.edgexfoundry.org/home
• EdgeX Foundry Mail Lists: https://lists.edgexfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo

Future Tech Talks may be added in the future, post-Barcelona release

• Be sure to subscribe to the TSC mail list, where calls will be announced

Learning Sessions

• June 29 (9am EDT): Getting set up as an EdgeX developer (Slides (PPTX); Meeting Recording)

• • What you need to start working with the existing code
  • How to get and run the code in your environment
  • Explore how to test that what you have running is working correctly

• July 6 (9am EDT): Getting and Running EdgeX Docker Containers (Slides (PPTX); Meeting Recording)
  • Where to get the EdgeX Foundry micro service Docker Containers
  • Using Docker Compose to get the EdgeX Containers
    
  • Running the EdgeX containers
    
  • How to use EdgeX containers in development (hybrid native and Docker development)
    
  • Eventual container build process
    
  • Open Q&A
    
    
• July 13 (6pm EDT): Core Data Micro Service - Deep(er) Dive (Slides (PPTX); Meeting Recording)

• • Core Data's general purpose
  • Core Data’s makeup – including technologies/libraries/tools used in Core Data
  • REST API outline (categorizing the APIs by purpose)
  • Core Data object model
    • Event's and Readings
    • Value Descriptors - what are they and how they are used in EdgeX
  • Some important configuration settings
    • Metadata check
    • Persistence via Mongo
    • "streamed" option
    • Message push to export services and/or rules engine
      
      
• July 20 (9am EDT) - Meeting canceled (EdgeX MVP meeting)

• July 27 (6pm EDT): Meta Data Micro Service Part 1 (Slides (PPTX); Meeting Recording)
  
  • Meta Data's general purpose
  • Meta Data's makeup
  • REST API outline
  • Meta Data object model
    • Device, Device Service
    • Addressable
  • Some important configuration settings
  • Meta Data Part 2 (in upcoming call, will cover Device Profile and Provisioning)
  
  
• August 3 (9am EDT): Meta Data Micro Service Part 2 (Slides (PPTX); Meeting Recording)
  • Meta Data Profile Details
    • Commands
    • Resources
    • Device Resources
  • Provisioning from a Meta Data perspective
  • Provisioning from a Device Service perspective

• August 10 (6pm EDT): Command Micro Service (Slides (PPTX); Demo API Walk Through shown in the talk; Meeting Recording)
  • Command general purpose
    • Why a command micro service
  • Command makeup - including technologies/libraries/tools/etc.
  • REST API outline
    • Command's API relationship to the Device Profile
  • Configuration settings
  • Quick update on ongoing project work
    

• August 17 (9am EDT): Configuration and Registry (C&R) Micro Service (Slides (PPTX); Meeting Recording)
  

• • C&R's general purposes
  • C&R's makeup - Consul and additions
    • Config Seed
    • Config Watchers
  • Integration with other micro services
    
    • How micro services bootstrap with C&R
    • Configuration in micro services
    • Default settings in development versus deployment (docker)
  • Configuration data organization and naming conventions
    
    • key/value pairs
    • association to microservice id namespace
    • profiles
  • Consul Web Interface
  • Registry and service health
  • Dynamic reloading of config data
    • Watchers
  • Future Considerations and additions
    • registry
    • more with watchers
    • Consul or ? (Consul's architecture)
  
  
• August 24 (6pm EDT):  Export Services (Slides (PPTX); Meeting Recording)
  

• • Export Services = Export Client Registration and Export Distribution microservices
    • With connectors to rules engine, analytics, etc.
  • Export Services Technology
    • Basics of how it works
    • Web application with a Spring Integration application
  • Export Client
    • Client Registration Data Model
    • Export Client API
  • Export Distribution
    • EAI model and design patterns
    • Message copy, filter, transformation, etc.
    • Potential extension points
  • Demos
  • Export Services Barcelona MVP changes
    
  • Configuration Settings
  • Upcoming Tech Talks
  • Q&A
    
    
• September 7 (6pm EDT): Logging Service (Slides(PPTX); Meeting Recording)
  • What and Why a Logging Microservice?
  • Logging Service Technology
    • Spring/Java core
    • Logback Wrapped
    • Persistence options
    • Basics of how it works
  • Adding Logging to your microservice
    • Configuration
    • Logging objects
  • REST API
    • Adding log entries
    • Query the logs
  • Upcoming Tech Talks
  • Q&A
    
  
  
• September 14 (9am EDT): Device Service SDK Deep Dive (Slides(PPTX); Meeting Recording)
  • Generating a Device Service
    • Service Configuration File

  • Generated DS Components

    • Features

    • Service Coverage

  • Developer Implementation

  • Device Profile Recap

  • Further References

  • Upcoming Tech Talks

  • Q&A