--- title: Accelerating HTTP Web Servers With In-Kernel eBPF... description: Researchers from ETH Zurich, NYU and NVIDIA built Beeper, a project that parses application-layer (L7) protocols using eBPF. An HTTP parser implemented in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/accelerating-http-web-servers-with-in-kernel-ebpf-deliver-up-to-4-5x-throughput-nlew9zu49 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Accelerating HTTP Web Servers With In-Kernel eBPF Deliver Up To 4.5x Throughput | daily.dev og:description: Researchers from ETH Zurich, NYU and NVIDIA built Beeper, a project that parses application-layer (L7) protocols using eBPF. An HTTP parser implemented in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/accelerating-http-web-servers-with-in-kernel-ebpf-deliver-up-to-4-5x-throughput-nlew9zu49 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NLeW9zu49.png og:image:alt: Accelerating HTTP Web Servers With In-Kernel eBPF Deliver Up To 4.5x Throughput og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Accelerating HTTP Web Servers With In-Kernel eBPF Deliver Up To 4.5x Throughput **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Researchers from ETH Zurich, NYU and NVIDIA built Beeper, a project that parses application-layer (L7) protocols using eBPF. An HTTP parser implemented in Beeper with an in-kernel HTTP cache improved web server throughput by up to 3x at high request rates. The project was presented this month at the Linux Plumbers Conference, with a 3.4x throughput improvement demonstrated. Separately, hyper-fast-path, an eBPF-based fast path for the Hyper Rust HTTP library, showed up to 4.5x maximum throughput. Beeper's code is written in Rust and available on GitHub. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is Beeper and how does it use eBPF to speed up HTTP servers? Beeper is an open-source research project from ETH Zurich, NYU and NVIDIA researchers that implements application-layer (L7) protocol parsing directly inside the Linux kernel using eBPF. With an HTTP parser and in-kernel HTTP cache, it improved web server throughput by up to 3x at high request rates, and the code is written in Rust and hosted on GitHub. _Developers evaluating eBPF for networking performance can follow such research on daily.dev._ ### How much throughput improvement does the hyper-fast-path eBPF project show for Rust's Hyper HTTP library? The hyper-fast-path project, an eBPF-based fast path for the Hyper Rust HTTP library, demonstrated up to 4.5x maximum throughput improvement. It complements the Beeper research, which separately showed a 3.4x throughput gain from in-kernel eBPF application-layer parsing, both presented at the Linux Plumbers Conference. _Those weighing Rust HTTP stack performance options can track projects like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Cloudflare’s eBPF Replatforming Part 4: Observability, Operations, and Reliability Improvements from eBPF](https://daily.dev/posts/cloudflare-s-ebpf-replatforming-part-4-observability-operations-and-reliability-improvements-from-k5xeelty4) · eBPF · 3 upvotes · 1 comments - [Boosting speed: Use eBPF and netstacklat to troubleshoot latency](https://daily.dev/posts/boosting-speed-use-ebpf-and-netstacklat-to-troubleshoot-latency-idzq9oxsb) · Red Hat Developer · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How eBPF Empowers Developers to Observe Inside the Linux Kernel in a Safe and Unintrusive Way](https://daily.dev/posts/how-ebpf-empowers-developers-to-observe-inside-the-linux-kernel-in-a-safe-and-unintrusive-way-jhmpnwjer) · InfoQ · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [What Is eBPF? Use Cases, Benefits, and Key Differences](https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-ebpf-use-cases-benefits-and-key-differences-5dgqadloo) · Isovalent · 3 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/accelerating-http-web-servers-with-in-kernel-ebpf-deliver-up-to-4-5x-throughput-nlew9zu49) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Accelerating HTTP Web Servers With In-Kernel eBPF Deliver Up To 4.5x Throughput","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/accelerating-http-web-servers-with-in-kernel-ebpf-deliver-up-to-4-5x-throughput-nlew9zu49","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/accelerating-http-web-servers-with-in-kernel-ebpf-deliver-up-to-4-5x-throughput-nlew9zu49"},"datePublished":"2026-10-27T10:40:43.862Z","dateModified":"2026-10-27T10:41:15.206Z","description":"Researchers from ETH Zurich, NYU and NVIDIA built Beeper, a project that parses application-layer (L7) protocols using eBPF. 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