There's a whole other level of certificate that we could add into this. You have to go to Darth Vader as a certificate authority to get him to give you a certificate. But for now, let's just stick with the labeling. Selium has for every endpoint be that the Death Star itself or the Empire ships or rebel ships, it has an endpoint identifier. It knows about it actually running eBPF programs to check policy.
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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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