eBPF, with Liz Rice (Isovalent) - S03E02

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In this episode we speak to Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, the company behind the open source eBPF product Cilium. We discuss why it’s such a revolutionary approach to developing low-level kernel applications, how BPF can be used for observability, networking and security, how developers should think about application security, and why all of these technologies are open source.

About Liz Rice

Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer at eBPF pioneers Isovalent, creators of the Cilium project, which provides cloud native networking, observability and security. Prior to Isovalent she was VP Open Source Engineering with security specialists Aqua Security. She is also Chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee, has co-chaired the KubeCon / CloudNativeCon and is an Ambassador for Open UK.

Other things mentioned:

• Isovalent
• Berkeley lab
• Dave Thaler
• Kubernetes
• Firecracker
• Lambda
• M1 Macbook
• VS Code

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Recorded: 2022-05-05.