Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Dr. Fabricio Rodríguez Cesen, and M.Sc. student Arthur J. Simas had their paper "eZtunnel: Leveraging eBPF to Transparently Offload Service Mesh Data Plane Networking" accepted at IEEE CloudNet 2024, in Rio de Janeiro. The research addresses performance bottlenecks in service meshes like Istio, using eBPF to optimize networking traffic in Kubernetes nodes. Experiments show that eZtunnel reduces median latency by over 20% and jitter by nearly 10%.
