Saturation is often measured indirectly, by CPU or queue depth, and not by capacity. Extending Envoy with eBPF tracks live concurrent requests against true limits, giving us direct visibility into "fullness." This cuts MTTR and eliminates the wasteful safety margins indirect metrics force us to use.

An early contributor to the Envoy proxy project, now working on developing tools to detect and mitigate inefficiencies in the way services interact with each other. Over the years Tal has been a founding engineer and a contractor working on a wide variety of cloud-native data-plane projects, including data protection and replication, API gateways, and security products.