Various embodiments directed to a cascading a network apparatus for scalability. In one or more embodiments, an apparatus may comprise an extensible markup language (XML) device to receive a content based message comprising a header, a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address, and destination port number via one or more received packets. The XML device may have a configuration and process the content based message only if the received packets comprise a destination IP address and destination port number that match the configuration of the XML device. The XML device may forward processed content based message via one or more packets that differ from the received packets. Other embodiments are described and claimed.