Technologies for network device load balancers for accelerated functions as a service

One or more machine-readable storage media storing instructions, which, when executed on one or more processors, causes a network device to:

• receive, in an edge network, a request to access a function, the request including one or more performance requirements;
• identify, as a function of an evaluation of the performance requirements and on monitored properties of each of a plurality of devices associated with the network device, one or more of the plurality of devices to provide the requested function;
• evaluate the monitored properties of a service queue associated with each identified device that is to provide the requested function, wherein the monitored properties include at least one or more performance metrics for the service queue, the evaluation at least to use a resource monitoring identifier associated with the service queue;
• select one of the identified devices according to a load balancing policy;
• and
• send the request to the selected device.

A network device, comprising:

• circuitry for receiving, in an edge network, a request to access a function, the request including one or more performance requirements;
• means for identifying, as a function of an evaluation of the performance requirements and on monitored properties of each of a plurality of devices associated with the network device, one or more of the plurality of devices to provide the requested function;
• means for evaluating the monitored properties of a service queue associated with each identified device that is to provide the requested function, wherein the means for evaluating the monitored properties comprises circuitry for obtaining one or more performance metrics for the service queue using a resource monitoring identifier associated with the service queue;
• means for selecting one of the identified devices according to a load balancing policy;
• and
• circuitry for sending the request to the selected device.