Presented at Linux Plumbers Conference 2026, the Beeper project implements an HTTP parser in in-kernel eBPF with a built-in cache, and its hyper-fast-path claims up to 4.5x throughput. It is a signal for teams serving high-rate HTTP traffic: application-layer protocol parsing is moving down into the kernel.

On 12 October 2026, AWS added a third form factor to Lambda — Web Functions — that runs an Express, Hono or Next.js server as-is and bills for the CPU it actually uses. Try it for I/O-heavy APIs and server-side rendering; keep Event Functions for pure event processing.