+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                                                                         topic-based publish/subscribe layer                                                                                                                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
      ^            ^            ^            ^            ^            ^            ^                ^            ^            ^            ^            ^                                          ^            ^            ^            ^            ^
      |            |            |            |            |            |            |                |            |            |            |            |                                          |            |            |            |            |
      v            v            v            v            v            v            v                v            v            v            v            v                                          v            v            v            v            v
+----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+  |  +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+                            |  +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+
| worker-1 | | worker-2 | | worker-3 | | worker-4 | | proxy-1  | | logger-1 | |  manager |  |  | worker-5 | | worker-6 | | worker-7 | | worker-8 | | proxy-2  |                            |  | worker-9 | | worker-10| | worker-11| | worker-12| | proxy-3  |
+----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+  |  +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+                            |  +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+
      ^            ^            ^            ^                                              |        ^            ^            ^            ^                                              |        ^            ^            ^            ^
      |            |            |            |                                              |        |            |            |            |                                              |        |            |            |            |
      +------------+-----+------+------------+                                              |        +------------+-----+------+------------+                                              |        +------------+-----+------+------------+
                         |                                                                  |                           |                                                                  |                           |
                         |                                                                  |                           |                                                                  |                           |
+----------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------+  |  +----------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------+  |  +----------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------+
|                        |                                           process supervision |  |  |                        |                                           process supervision |  |  |                        |                                           process supervision |
+----------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------+  |  +----------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------+  |  +----------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------+
                         |                                                                  |                           |                                                                  |                           |
+-----------------+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------+  |  +-----------------+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------+  |  +-----------------+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
|                 |     NIC     |                  packet acquisition and flow balancing |  |  |                 |     NIC     |                  packet acquisition and flow balancing |  |  |                 |     NIC     |                  packet acquisition and flow balancing |
+-----------------+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------+  |  +-----------------+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------+  |  +-----------------+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
                         ^                                                                                              ^                                                                                              ^
                         |                                                                                              |                                                                                              |
                         +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
                                                                                                                        |
                                                                                                                 +---------------+
                                                                                                                 |               |
                                                                                                                 | packet broker +
                                                                                                                 |               |
                                                                                                                 +---------------+
