Liz Rice on Programming the Linux Kernel with eBPF, Cilium and Service Meshes
The InfoQ Podcast
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How Cilium and EBPF Relate to Each Other
The EBPF tooling is dramatically more performant than the equivalent in user space because we can avoid these transitions. It's typically going to run very quickly because it's running in the kernel, there's no context switch between kernel and user space. The people who created the Cilium project were involved in the early days of EBPF as well. They realized that this was a really great opportunity for EBPF to rationalize the way that networking could work.
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