Courtesy of the complex routing and network configurations that Cloudflare uses, their engineers like to push the Linux network stack to its limits and ideally beyond. In a blog article [Chris Branch] ...
It's not just NVIDIA hiring to improve their Linux graphics drivers, as Intel are also looking for multiple new driver ...
We used to need SBCs for these projects; modern microcontrollers handle them more easily and inexpensively while being easier to maintain.