+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                    topic-based publish/subscribe layer                                                     |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
      ^            ^            ^            ^            ^            ^            ^            ^            ^            ^            ^
      |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |
      v            v            v            v            v            v            v            v            v            v            v
+----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+
| worker-1 | | worker-2 | | worker-3 | | worker-4 | | worker-5 | | worker-6 | | worker-7 | | worker-8 | | proxy-1  | | logger-1 | |  manager |
+----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+
      ^            ^            ^            ^            ^            ^            ^            ^
      |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |
      +------------+-----+------+------------+            +------------+------+-----+------------+
                         |                                                   |
                         |                                                   |
+----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------+
|                        |                                                   |                                           process supervision |
+----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------+
                         |                                                   |
+-----------------+-------------+-------------------------------------+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
|                 |     NIC     |                                     |     NIC     |                  packet acquisition and flow balancing |
+-----------------+-------------+-------------------------------------+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
