><p>Now let us imagine that the app is somehow made to connect directly to memcached, then the two intermediate proxies could be skipped. The data would flow directly between the app and memcached without any intermediate hops. AppSwitch can arrange for that by transparently tweaking the target address passed by the Python app when it makes the <code>connect(2)</code> system call.</p><h3 id=proxyless-protocol-decoding>Proxyless protocol decoding</h3><p>Things are going to get a bit strange here. We have see