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As Data centers try to manage a burgeon in quantum of data, there have been many evolutions that have helped alleviate the load on the server's CPU processing capacity. From multi-core CPUs to graphics processing units, many such technologies have found their way inside servers to process the burgeoning data within data centers. Recently, we saw a paradigm shift in the way the network or the east-west traffic has been offloaded and managed with the new SmartNICs also called Data Processing Units or DPUs.