 handle the connection internally or to hand it off to an external proxy (Envoy). The same mechanism can be potentially extended to allow for a chain of plugins, each looking for a specific signature, with the last one in the chain doing the real proxy work.</p><h2 id=its-not-just-about-performance>It&rsquo;s not just about performance</h2><p>Removing intermediate layers along the datapath is not just about improving performance. Performance is a great side effect, but it <em>is</em> a side effect. There ar