I see your analogy, but (NoSQL and its clients) are conceptually much higher up on the stack. Interestingly, the paper does say: [eBPF] enables applicatio

I see your analogy, but (NoSQL and its clients) are conceptually much higher up on the stack. Interestingly, the paper does say: [eBPF] enables applications to perform up to L7 protocol (e.g., HTTP or Memcached) processing. Furthermore, some programmable NICs are able to execute eBPF programs directly on the NIC hardware.