On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Chris Adams wrote:

Why did the systemd
project add this to the scope of the project for "a system and service
manager for Linux"?

This was something that could have been easily asked to systemd developers rather than the long rant that was posted. In any case,

https://lwn.net/Articles/621201/

Also CoreOS sponsored development of a lot of network stack. You can refer to their guides on how they are using it.

Rahul