Horizontal scaling is nice, but keeping state is not. Enters Maglev [0] that offers the best of both worlds ! But one does not get to run it without a fair supply of pain killers.

This talk claims otherwise !

We will cover how Malgev works, why it makes sense to use it, how to write a simple VPP [1] agent, and make run it on commodity hardware. Packets will fly !

[0] https://research.google/pubs/maglev-a-fast-and-reliable-software-network-load-balancer/ [1] https://fd.io/technology/