Network
XDP for Windows - and it's open source
XDP (eXpress Data Path) is a high performance, programmable network data path and Microsoft is working on an implementation for Windows.
openvpn data channel offload
openvpn is working on offloading the data channel to kernel space. This is improving throughput by an order of magnitude according tests.
freebsd 12.3 / pfsense 2.6 on hyper-v with low throughput
Upgrading pfsense running on hyper-v to version 2.6 might result in a massive performance regression when the VMSwitch has RSC enabled.
