Getting a data engineer certification may help you reach your professional objectives, regardless of whether you are currently a data engineer, want to change jobs, or are just starting.

Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium cloud native networking, security and observability project. She was Chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of Container Security, published by O'Reilly.

The introduction of Docker and Kubernetes has brought a dramatic revolution in the IT industry. Unlike the traditional methods of developing and deploying software, Kubernetes or K8s uses scaling and automated deployment. Thanks to the Linux functionalities that make Kubernetes run seamlessly with robust security.

When it comes to integrating security, networking, and observability features, working within the Linux kernel is perfect. It is not, however, without its difficulties. Historically, developers have encountered complex architectures and difficult-to- debug abstraction layers, altered kernel source code or added modules. Both of these issues are addressed by the extended BPF (eBPF).

eBPF, which stands for Extended Berkeley Packet Filter, is a technology that allows Linux programs to run code in the kernel. eBPF was previously also used to construct debugging, networking, profiling, monitoring, firewalls, and other types of programs.

In this platform, companies post anonymized data sets asking the Community of data scientists and machine learning practitioners, from over the world, to compete and proposing best-performing algorithms/analysis in a contest.