ByteDance is a worldwide know-how firm working a variety of content material platforms around the globe, and is greatest recognized for creating TikTok. The corporate operates at a large scale, which naturally presents challenges in guaranteeing efficiency and stability throughout its knowledge facilities. It has over 1,000,000 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 know-how 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 vice chairman of engineering at Mento and an impartial coach for engineers and engineering leaders. He co-founded and served as CTO for 2 corporations, based the San Diego JavaScript meetup, and organizes the AI inaction dialogue group by means of Latent House.
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