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Ever since Brendan Gregg started using eBPF for observability back in 2015 I've had the sense that eBPF is an extremely underrated tool of the future. I really would like to learn it, but beyond some improvised bpftrace scripting and the tools that come with bcc, I've not really had the need.

What custom usage do you have for it?



I’ve used it to write a layer 4 load balancer to replace old hardware appliances. Similar to Facebook’s Katran, but switches traffic at layer 2 (rather than L3) for compatibility and in Go rather than C++,’cos I’m not a great coder ;-)




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