eBPF Has a Bright Future in Infrastructure Development

For the next decade, eBPF will be “a strategic platform choice for infrastructure developers,” predicted Cisco Distinguished Software Engineer Daniel Borkmann, in a keynote talk at the Linux Open Source Summit about the state of the technology he helped create, including some prognostication of how it could be used in future times.

eBPF is revolutionary because it shortens development cycles of getting new technologies into the kernel, Borkmann posited. Until now, getting some sort of extension added to the Linux kernel has taken years,…