Many of the services that will be enhanced by edge computing involve a complex mixture of applications and providers. Smart cities, smart factories, connected vehicle services and others all require a large number of applications and stakeholders to work together in a seamless way. In some cases, this will be achieved by one of those stakeholders – a telco, a webscale provider, a vertical specialist – acting as the integrator, but the ultimate goal is to have open platforms that allow developers to deploy capabilities easily via application programming interfaces (APIs) or, increasingly, container-based microservices, which can be mixed and matched like Lego pieces. MobiledgeX, a Silicon Valley organization spun out of Deutsche Telekom, is one of the players trying…