rectly connected over a TCP socket going over the GKE network &ndash; no tunneling, bridge or proxies.</p><h2 id=net-net>Net Net</h2><p>I started out with David Wheeler&rsquo;s seemingly reasonable quote that says adding another layer is not a solution for the problem of too many layers. And I argued through most of the blog that current network stack already has too many layers and that they should be removed. But isn&rsquo;t AppSwitch itself a layer?</p><p>Yes, AppSwitch is clearly another layer. However 