The goal is to enable high scalability by decomposing a mixed-criticality application into a set of “cloud-native” and “edge-running” microservices, with different trust considerations, and managing secure accelerated offloading capabilities for distributing the resource intensive processes to the backend, thus, limiting the workload that needs to be managed at the edge. This will allow the overall system to reach its full potential, in a secure and trusted manner, without impeding safety.