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.
Matched from the episode's transcript 👇
Thomas Graf: The story is that hexagons - you can fit them together very nicely, and tightly. So I think they’re actually a really good representation of containers and microservices and cloud-native. And also, if you look at bees, you have these hard-working bees, creating hexagon hives, hexagon-shaped hives… So from a theme perspective, that made a ton of sense why you see the bee as the logo for eBPF. Cilium is using a hexagon hive as its own logo… So as a theme, it made a ton of sense overall, and it’s why we started out this way.