[genbit]

Even though Cisco acquires them, I believe this is not going to be a "RIP" story — Cilium is a graduated CNCF project, adopted by all major cloud providers, used by many fortune 100 companies, and have a rich/diverse contributors community. Plus the team at Isovalent is super strong, and eBPF powerhouse, they are going to continue working on Cilium, Tetragon, and other eBPF projects. And they've build a strong and vibrant OSS community. Cisco did a really smart and strategic move to lead a modernization of networking and security.

[jbiggley]

I agree. The team at Isovalent is extraordinary and should continue to be strong champions of BPF for network and security use cases. With Cisco footing the bill, I think we will see even more expansion into XDP traffic processing that is native to hardware vs. the current overlay model.

First Splunk, now Isovalent. Cisco has been busy this year!

[randmeerkat]

> The team at Isovalent is extraordinary and should continue to be strong champions of BPF for network and security use cases.

That won’t stop a bunch of them from being laid off like what happened during the Splunk acquisition.

[kapilvt]

Those products are at very different maturity points, wrt to continued commercial adoption, aka revenue gen.

[TwoNineFive]

I am a network engineer and have worked with Cisco stuff since the 90s.

You underestimate Cisco's ability to fuck up acquired companies. The entire point is for Cisco to fuck it up by raising prices and entrapping customers to the point where competitors and alternatives will be created where none existed before. It's Cisco's nature and there is more than two decades of history of them doing it.