Building a Rack-Scale Computer with P4 at the Core

P4 feels like it's in a rough spot, where it's heavily used, but almost entirely by a couple gigantic companies. And many of these can make their own chip.

So the market for merchant silicon here seems super weak. Intel bowed out, for example.

And without available competitive hardware, there won't be means for people to get interested.

I really hope the open networking world can have a bit of a re-revival but the hardware situation feels semi scary right now.

This talk is from Oxide, whose using Intel's last chip. It's a team I trust to do good things with p4 & look forward to seeing what they've done & what they have to say. Fingers crossed for p4.