All your network are belong to eBPF

A few weeks ago, Jerod spoke with Liz Rice about the power of eBPF on The Changelog. Today, we have the pleasure of both Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Office at Isovalent & Thomas Graf, CTO & co-founder at Isovalent, the creators of Cilium.

Around 2014, Facebook achieved a 10x performance improvement by replacing their traditional load balancers with eBPF. In 2017, every single packet that went to Facebook was processed by eBPF. Nowadays, every Android phone is using it. Truth be told, if it’s network-related and it matters, eBPF is most likely a part of it.

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Featuring:

• Liz Rice – Website, GitHub, X
• Thomas Graf – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• eBPF.io
• 📘 What is eBPF? - written by Liz Rice, free to download
• 📕 Security Observability with eBPF - written by Natália Réka Ivánkó and Jed Salazar, free to download
• 🎬 A Guided Tour of Cilium Service Mesh - Liz Rice, Isovalent - KubeCon 2022 EU
• 🎬 eCHO Episode 51: Life of a Packet with Cilium - Duffie Cooley
• Learn more about Cilium and eBPF from the technology experts
• ✨ Twinkly - Liz’s wall neon

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!