If eBPF is new to you (it was to me), this article offers some useful context to help parse "eBPF brings to the Linux kernel what JavaScript brought to the browser" (which made me shudder at first): <a href="https://thenewstack.io/how-io_uring-and-ebpf-will-revolutionize-programming-in-linux/" rel="nofollow">https://thenewstack.io/how-io_uring-and-ebpf-will-revolution...</a>
Note: the A16Z article is written by Martin Casado, now partner at A16Z. I met Martin at VMware in 2014-2016, where he was leading the SDN (Software Defined Networking) team after the company he co-founded, Nicira, was acquired by VMware in 2012. Martin also (co?)invented Openflow.<p>I didn't work closely with Martin, but I've noticed multiple times how good he is at vision, strategy, understanding tech and predicting where it's going. Not surprised he led the investment in Isovalent, which I believe is a very promising company.
It's interesting to see, tbh we knew it was coming because Dan and Martin worked together before and Cilium is now baked into K8s in a number of places like GKE and Scaleway Kapsule. Although what I'm more interested in now is some user space networking like Snap from Google, that feels like it has a huge future <a href="https://research.google/pubs/pub48630/" rel="nofollow">https://research.google/pubs/pub48630/</a>