DRAFT
Overview
At the Ed-Fi Tech Congress 2022, a session was held to discuss the need of a Managed Service Provider (MSP) Special Interest Group (SIG). Attendees were strong in agreement that a SIG is needed to discuss topics related to deploying and managing Ed-Fi technology at-scale, which will be gathering in the coming weeks after the session.
Attendees
- Education Analytics
- Eshara Mondal
- Dr. Andrew Rice
- EdWire
- David Citron
- Instructure
- Traci Clarke
- Jeremy Perkins
- Ed-Fi Alliance
- Sean Casey
- Jason Hoekstra
Topics of Discussion
- Admin App
- Need for a GUI-based editor for profiles and editing profiles without the need for ODS / API reboots
- SSO and Open ID Connect
- ODS / API Platform
- Need for row-level security
- Data transfers between SEA and LEAs
- Removing password from logging
- API throttling for API consumers at-scale
- GraphQL to cut down on API transactions
- Working with supplemental domains
- Working with domains in a versioned manner
- Issue with no database access / API-only prescription for analytics and other use cases
- Security at-scale
- Automated scanning of GitHub repos
- Penetration testing
- Practice share methods
- Deployments
- Tech Preview channel
- Less infrastructure to deploy / serving more customers with one API working with multi-models
- Easier to deploy technology / enable faster time to value / quicker to standup
- Better communications around the roadmap updates, cycles, releases, etc
- Integration
- Certification process - what fields are available from the certification?
- Reports of data being sent from the API
- Innovation
- X-Prize like contests - developing technology to show new/future use cases