ByteDance is a global tech company known for creating TikTok and operating various content platforms worldwide. The company faces challenges in maintaining performance and stability across its data centers due to its scale, with over a million servers running containerized applications. This led to the need for a networking solution capable of high throughput while ensuring stability.
eBPF, a technology for dynamic and safe reprogramming of the Linux kernel, was utilized by ByteDance for decentralized networking, enhancing efficiency, scalability, and performance.
Chen Tang, an engineer at ByteDance, contributed to redesigning the company’s container networking using eBPF. He joined a discussion with Kevin Ball to explore eBPF, its problem-solving capabilities, and its application at ByteDance.
Kevin Ball, or KBall, is the VP of engineering at Mento and an independent coach for engineers and leaders. He co-founded and was CTO for two companies, started the San Diego JavaScript meetup, and organizes the AI inaction group through Latent Space.
A transcript of this episode is available [here](http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/SED1839-Bytedance.txt).