The power of eBPF (Changelog Interviews #501)

eBPF is a revolutionary kernel technology that has lit the cloud native world on fire. If you’re going to have one person explain the excitement, that person would be Liz Rice. Liz is the COSO at Isovalent, creators of the open source Cilium project and pioneers of eBPF tech.

On this episode Liz tells Jerod all about the power of eBPF, where it came from, what kind of new applications its enabling, and who is building the next generation of networking, security, and observability tools with it.

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Featuring:

• Liz Rice – Website, GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• eBPF’s website
• Brendan Gregg’s eBPF-based tracing tools
• Cilium’s website
• BPF Compiler Collection (BCC)
• Meta’s Katran project
• Cloudflare’s packet filtering
• Parca continuous profiling
• Cilium’s Hubble
• Netflix’s Falco project
• Cilum’s Tetragon project
• eBPF Summit 2022

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