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innguest on July 14, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bitly: Lessons Building a Distributed System that ...

"Or, you could just avoid the OS altogether" [and get 40 million requests per second]:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/13/snabb-switch-skip-...

Mandatum on July 15, 2014 | [–]

6B requests/mo = ~2200/sec 40M requests/sec = 105 trillion/mo (or the number of red cells in the human body times 5)

nl on July 15, 2014 | [–]

Packet handling != application logic

But yes, there is some interesting work being done on building network applications directly against the hardware.

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