ByteDance is a world expertise firm working a variety of content material platforms world wide, and is greatest recognized for creating TikTok. The corporate operates at a large scale, which naturally presents challenges in making certain efficiency and stability throughout its information facilities. It has over one million servers working containerized purposes, and this required the corporate to discover a networking resolution that would deal with excessive throughput whereas sustaining stability.
eBPF is a expertise for dynamically and safely reprogramming the Linux kernel. ByteDance leveraged eBPF to efficiently implement a decentralized networking resolution that improved effectivity, scalability, and efficiency.
Chen Tang is an engineer at ByteDance, the place he labored on redesigning the corporate’s container networking stack utilizing eBPF. On this episode, Chen joins the present with Kevin Ball to speak about eBPF, the issues it solves, and the way it was used at ByteDance.
Kevin Ball or KBall, is the vp of engineering at Mento and an unbiased coach for engineers and engineering leaders. He co-founded and served as CTO for 2 firms, based the San Diego JavaScript meetup, and organizes the AI inaction dialogue group via Latent House.
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