Aug 7, 2026
eBPF Foundation Community & Advocacy Fellowship: Applications Now Open
Following a successful inaugural year, the eBPF Foundation is once again inviting applications for its 2026 Community & Advocacy Fellowship Program, a program designed to reward and support innovative ideas that grow the eBPF ecosystem for an increasingly global and diverse set of users, contributors, and end users. The program's…
Jul 30, 2026
How Google Leverages eBPF for Real-Time Lock Contention Analysis and Low-Overhead Fleet Diagnostics
Download this case study in PDF version Overview At Google's global operational scale, detecting and troubleshooting localized performance anomalies, such as sporadic I/O latency spikes, presents major infrastructural challenges. Traditional diagnostic tools introduce overhead in active clusters, while alternative methods like deploying custom debug kernels require weeks and frequently fail…
Jul 23, 2026
eBPF Foundation Accelerates Growth with Meta, Toyota Membership, and New Strategic Board Leadership
Expanding interest in the Foundation across sectors, including automotive, security and networking fuels future innovation in eBPF technology Summary The eBPF Foundation announced membership growth as Meta joins as a Platinum Member and Toyota joins as a Silver Member. The Governing Board elected new leadership, including Bill Mulligan of Isovalent…
Jul 20, 2026
Unveiling the eBPF Company Landscape: Mapping the Businesses Powering the eBPF Ecosystem
This article has been writteb by Bill Mulligan, Governing Board Chair eBPF Foundation. The eBPF ecosystem is evolving incredibly fast, and keeping track of the players shaping this space just got easier. Today, we're excited to introduce the eBPF Company Landscape. While this initiative was heavily inspired by the CNCF…
Jul 15, 2026
Case Study: How Cloudflare Uses eBPF to Power Security, Networking, and Observability at Global Scale
Download this case study in PDF format Summary Cloudflare operates one of the world’s largest edge networks, delivering security, performance, and reliability services across hundreds of cities globally. The company handles massive volumes of Internet traffic while defending against some of the most sophisticated DDoS attacks ever recorded, making traditional…
Jul 8, 2026
Community & Advocacy Fellowship – Teodor Podobnik
May 2026 marked the end of my inaugural Community & Advocacy Fellowship with the eBPF Foundation, awarded in recognition of my ongoing contributions to the eBPF community. During the first half of the fellowship, I focused on expanding my community efforts across multiple formats, including eBPF podcasts, local meetups, conference…
Jul 1, 2026
Research Update: Managing Server Power with eBPF (Part 2)
Contributed By Daniel Wong, University of California, Riverside The previous research update post can be found here. Project Overview As data centers continue to grow, energy consumption has become a first-order design constraint. Yet Linux power management has not kept pace with modern workloads, which demand faster, coordinated decisions that…
Jun 25, 2026
The eBPF Foundation Launches the Investor’s Due Diligence Guide: Why eBPF is Infrastructure’s Ultimate Technical and Economic Moat
We cannot solve 2026 infrastructure problems with a 2016 architectural approach. As enterprise ecosystems grapple with the compounding complexities of GPU scaling, real-time inference, supply chain security, zero day exploits, semantic and intent analysis, and agent identities, the legacy software stack has hit a structural wall. Traditional, resource-heavy user space…
Jun 15, 2026
Research Update: Verifier-Cooperative Runtime Enforcement for eBPF
Contributed by Ryan Huang, University of Michigan. This work is supported by the eBPF Foundation Academic Research Grants. This is the second blog post in our series on the ePass project. In our first post, we introduced the motivation behind ePass: the verifier relies on static analysis, which needs to be…
Jun 1, 2026
Research Update: Isolated Execution Environment for eBPF (Part 3)
The post below is an update on a research project sponsored by the eBPF Foundation. It is the third in a series of posts about this research (you can read the first here and the second here). The post was prepared by Zhe Wang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of…