Put open source to work
July 16–17, 2018: Training & Tutorials
July 18–19, 2018: Conference
Portland, OR
Romain Lenglet

Romain Lenglet
Chief Architect, Cilium

@romainlenglet

Romain Lenglet is a chief architect at Covalent and a core developer of the Cilium open source project, where he focuses on integration with the Istio service mesh via Envoy proxy. His past work focused on the intersection of distributed systems and networking, architecting large-systems for YouTube at Google, Oracle Cloud at Oracle, and Nicira (acquired by VMware, now VMware NSX). Romain holds a PhD in computer science from the Institut polytechnique de Grenoble and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Sessions

3:40pm–4:10pm Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Kernel advantages for Istio realized with Cilium
Istio
 Location: B113-114
Cynthia Thomas (Google), Romain Lenglet (Cilium)
BPF technology is bringing Linux kernel capabilities up to speed with modern workload requirements. Cilium helps make BPF consumable for microservices architectures and enables Istio with the most powerful security solution by way of the kernel. Cynthia Thomas and Romain Lenglet explain why you should use Cilium to enforce API-aware policy while coordinating with Istio. Read more.