ow-touch alternatives. Perhaps there is a way to remove those additional layers altogether.</p><p>I have been thinking about these problems for some time and believe that an approach similar in concept to containers can be applied to the network stack that would fundamentally simplify how application endpoints are connected across the complexity of many intermediate layers. I have reapplied the same principles from the original work on containers to create <a href=https://appswitch.readthedocs.io>AppSwitch<