Summary: Hardware vendors are always making their silicon more complex and feature-rich. Is that a great idea or a disaster waiting to happen? We asked Luke Gorrie, the lead developer of Snabb Switch (an open-source user-land virtual switch written in Lua) about his opinions on the topic. TL&DL version: Give me a dumb NIC, software can do everything else. If you want to know more, listen to Episode 93 of Software Gone Wild.Listen to the podcast
