Multi-Gbps bandwidth ○ Ultra low latency #IstioCon Performance Limitations: Solutions ● Software techniques ○ (eBPF-based) TCP/IP stack bypass ○ HTTP/3 & QUIC ● Hardware acceleration technologies ○ SRIOV/DPDK Transport TCP QUIC Streams HTTP/2 QUIC Clear text version Yes No Independent streams No Yes Header compression HPACK QPACK Server push Yes Yes Early data In theory Yes 0-RTT Handshake No Yes #IstioCon