Sorry! Once you get deep enough in this tech, you seem to have more in common with an alien language than actual common English.
* BPF - Berkeley Packet Filter - BPF is a safe, in-kernel virtual machine that's meant to be able to introduce next generation functionality into the Kernel: https://lwn.net/Articles/603983/
* ECC - Elliptical Curve Encryption - Enough said
* XDP - eXpress Data Plane - This is a project atop BPF that's being merged into the Kernel to implement programmability features in the kernel, without requiring that people write crazypants code or unsafe code. It's backed, and used by Facebook. If you're familiar with Intel's DPDK, it's similar.
* SKB - Socket Buffers - These are the components that make up the data you send over the wire in the Kernel. When they come out of the kernel, they have to be flattened, and copied which is expensive. This is one of the biggest problems with usermode networking.
