This Tiny Chip Can Handle Internet Traffic Faster—If You Let It Do Things Its Own Way
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Laconic is a SmartNIC-based load balancer that optimizes Layer 7 load balancing through three key techniques: a lightweight network stack, efficient shared data synchronization, and hardware acceleration. It achieves up to 8x higher throughput than unmodified load balancers on SmartNICs by streamlining packet processing and leveraging hardware flow engines for large flows.
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