ByteDance is a global technology company operating a wide range of content platforms around the world

and is best known for creating TikTok. The company operates at a massive scale, which naturally presents

challenges in ensuring performance and stability across its data centers. It has over a million

servers running containerized applications, and this required

the company to find a networking solution that could handle high throughput while maintaining stability.

EBPF is a technology for dynamically and safely reprogramming the Linux kernel. Bightance leveraged

EBPF to successfully implement a decentralized networking solution

that improved efficiency, scalability, and performance.

Chen Tang is an engineer at Bightance, where he worked on redesigning the company's container

networking stack using EBPF. In this episode, Chen joins the show with Kevin Ball to talk about EBPF,

the problems it solves, and how it was used at BiteDance. Kevin Ball, or K Ball, is the vice

president of engineering at Mento and an independent coach for engineers and engineering leaders.

He co-founded and served as CTO for two companies, founded the San Diego JavaScript meetup,

and organizes the AI inaction discussion group through latent space.

Check out the show notes to follow KBall on Twitter or LinkedIn, or visit his website,

kball.l. LLC. Jen, welcome to the show.

Hi, Kevin.

I'm excited to get to talk to you.

Yeah, me too.

Let's maybe start with, you can introduce yourself.

Just tell me a little bit about your background and how you got involved doing cloud native stuff and

networking. Okay, my name's Chen, and I'm currently a software engineer in Bydance. So my job is

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