The article explores advanced technologies in load balancing, highlighting various high-performance L4 load balancers like Katran and Maglev. These systems primarily focus on connection-less methods and fail to address the demands of connection-oriented L7 load balancing. It discusses several advancements in network stack acceleration, including offloading workloads to SmartNICs, improving TCP performance, and optimizing protocol processing. Additionally, it references measurement studies that have influenced the design of SmartNICs, ultimately emphasizing a gap in effectively addressing L7 protocols in current strategies.
Katran is an L4 load balancer that leverages eBPF, while notable projects like SilkRoad and Hula utilize programmable switches for enhanced performance in similar domains.
Recent innovations in TCP networking acceleration include offloading tasks onto SmartNICs, which improves performance by processing network protocols more efficiently.
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