I'm looking forward to the holidays around Christmas because I've seen the Christmas present that we'll be giving out to our own employees and it was going to be amazing. Short-term, I'm looking ahead to spend time in the mountains. It's the reason why even though I've always worked for American companies in my entire career, I've never left Switzerland. The Alps are just amazing for this. All right. You just touched a very soft spot, but we leave that for another conversation. Anything else that you'd like us to cover? There were so many follow up questions. I just have to contain myself. And I was containing myself as much as I could with anything else
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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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