ush the data along. In doing so, they add latency to communication and complexity to the overall system.</p><p>Over the years, there has been much collective effort in implementing aggressive fine-grained optimizations within the layers of the network datapath. Each iteration may shave another few microseconds. But then the true necessity of those layers itself has not been questioned.</p><h2 id=dont-optimize-layers-remove-them>Don’t optimize layers, remove them</h2><p>In my belief, optimizing something i