I have been looking at various technologies surrounding SDN and programmability for some months now, and of the bunch that I encountered, the term “P4” is one that pops around quite often. I will attempt to document my exploration of the P4 language in this post.

Today I attended a Pre-research advising session held by the University of Colarado Boulder. Here I got to see Dr. Eric Keller discuss his research and ideas, and it was an awesome session despite it being 4:45 in the morning for myself! Here I learnt about some of the work on packet acceleration in packet processing pipelines, specifically in the Linux networking stack.

Hello, I am Anirudh Kamath and this is my first post. Will add more here when and as it comes!