[jauntywundrkind]

It feels like you're not really trying, if you can't cite anything in genre with what you are talking about?

I'd love to run off Google Falcon versus say Microsoft's Machnet. There's a ton of system resources dedicated to making machnet and dpdk fast, it comes with huge design tradeoffs & specially carefully crafted software architectures. Extreme software engineering effort. The glory of Falcon is that you don't need to rebuild your app stack from the bottom up like this: you're just going to get blitz fast insane utilization with incredibly low p99 for free from the system you have. https://github.com/microsoft/machnet

I think you massively over-glorify the software side of things. There is a ton of potential absolutely to very carefully setup systems to get great goodput, no degredation. But it usually requires carefully built systems & eternal vigilance in how you scale your software across cores. Or you could just have some hardware that routes replies directly to the place it needs to go. I don't get what feels like a weird fetishization you have with doing it in software, and it feels like you don't have any rigor about your criticism/can't cite any backing research/want to accuse everyone else of being super lazy.