> and <a href=http://px.dev>Pixie</a> show great use cases for eBPF in observability and network packet processing. With eBPF’s <code>sockops</code> and <code>redir</code> capabilities, data packets can be processed efficiently by directly being transported from an inbound socket to an outbound socket. In an Istio mesh, it is possible to use eBPF to replace iptables rules, and accelerate the data plane by shortening the data path.</p><p>We have created an open source project called Merbridge, and by apply