Episode 833 transcript

FLOSS-833 Jonathan: Hey folks. This week Jeff Massey joins me and we talk with Tom Herbert, a Linux Colonel Guru, and an alumni of Sun and Google, a bunch of other companies and some startups, and he has thoughts on network throughput and EBPF, how to make networks faster, how to make the internet work better, AI and what it's good for, and lots more. You don't wanna miss it, so stay tuned. This is Floss Weekly, episode 833, recorded Tuesday, April the 20th. I did it again. I'm brain is an April mode. Ah, and that was so good too. It's time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about Free Libre and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Bennett, and we've got a neat, very cool show for you. Today. We are talking with Tom, Tom Herbert of, well of a lot of places. Tom Herbert of Sun and Google of various startups, A kernel developer, someone that does some hacking on EBPF and lots of high, high efficiency, high throughput networking things. He seems to wear a lot of hats. We've got a co-host today as well, who also I believe, wears a lot of hats at least from time to time. Mr. Jeff Massey. Oh, glad to be here. Hat, hat, hat. I do Hatless today, sort of. Although you're wearing a h…