I'm not an expert in BPF by any means. My gut tells me that the hype of eBPF is an example of Hyrum's law. That is, eBPF will be leveraged beyond its design intent, as an in-kernel JIT engine. This is more a comment on human nature than the technology itself.
eBPF is also used high throughput blockchain, Solana<p><a href="https://github.com/solana-labs/rbpf" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/solana-labs/rbpf</a><p>Unlike more common Rust + LLVM + WASM toolchain, Solana smart contracts use Rust + LLVM + eBPF.
I was under the impression that Cilium was one of the more common choices for Kubernetes CNI but judging by the other comments... maybe not?<p>We’re currently moving to Kubernetes for our infrastructure at the Berkeley OCF (<a href="https://ocf.berkeley.edu/" rel="nofollow">https://ocf.berkeley.edu/</a>), and picked Cilium for all the networking things.<p>It’s good to see that there’s a company backing it now!