Episode
Cilium, eBPF, and Modern Kubernetes Networking with Bill Mulligan
Software Engineering Daily · Mar 26, 2026 · 58 min
Modern cloud-native systems are built on highly dynamic, distributed infrastructure where containers spin up and down constantly, services communicate across clusters, and traditional networking assumptions break down. Linux networking was designed decades ago around static IPs and linear rule processing, which makes it increasingly difficult to achieve scale in Kubernetes environments. At the…