Oct 15, 2025
eBPF Foundation Announces Inaugural Community & Advocacy Fellowship Recipients
TL;DR The eBPF Foundation announced the recipients of its inaugural Community & Advocacy Fellowship, recognizing contributors expanding global access to eBPF through education, tutorials, and community-building. The 2025 fellows are Teodor Janez Podobnik (eBPFChirp Newsletter) and Yusheng Zheng (bpf-developer-tutorial). Fellows will expand global access to eBPF through education, tutorials, and…
Oct 14, 2025
Ant Group Secures Their Platform with Kata Containers and eBPF for Fine Grained Control
Download this case study in PDF format Overview Ant Group needed to strengthen security for its large scale containerized workloads, which power their critical online services and AI applications. Traditional container workload protection solutions left gaps around container escape, inconsistent kernel support, and policy management complexity. To address these challenges,…
Oct 8, 2025
The Dwarves Beneath the Kernel: Forging BTF for eBPF
This blog post was contributed to the eBPF Foundation by Bootlin and was originally posted here. It is the third installment in Bootlin's eBPF blog post series, following posts about eBPF selftests and eBPF trampolines. In the previous blog post, we discussed how eBPF trampolines are dynamically generated to allow…
Sep 16, 2025
eBPF Foundation Awards $100,000 in Research Grants to Advance eBPF Safety and Efficiency
Research projects will strengthen eBPF programmability, runtime safety, and datacenter energy efficiency through verifier-cooperative instrumentation and QoS-aware power management SAN FRANCISCO – September 16, 2025 – The eBPF Foundation, which focuses on advancing the state of the art for eBPF by directing upstream development, promoting the use of the technology…
Aug 14, 2025
eBPF Foundation Announces Community & Advocacy Fellowship Program
The eBPF Foundation is excited to announce a new “eBPF Foundation Community & Advocacy Fellowship” to reward and support innovative ideas that will grow the eBPF ecosystem for an increasingly global and diverse set of users, contributors, and end users. The program's goal is to cultivate a vibrant, skilled, and…
Aug 12, 2025
Rakuten Mobile Adopts eBPF to Strengthen Anomaly Detection and Security in Cloud-Native Telecom Networks
Download this case study in PDF format Overview As mobile networks transition to virtualized and cloud-native architectures, traditional monitoring tools struggle to keep pace. To address this challenge, Rakuten Mobile adopted open source eBPF technology, originally designed for cloud and enterprise observability, and adapted it to the complex demands of…
Aug 5, 2025
Bouncing on trampolines to run eBPF programs
This blog post is the second installment in Bootlin eBPF blog post series, following the blog post about eBPF selftests. As eBPF is more and more used in the industry, eBPF kernel developers give considerable attention to eBPF performance: some standard use cases like system monitoring involve hundreds of eBPF…
Jul 22, 2025
Case Study: SuperNetflow – Reinventing Network Observability with eBPF
Download this case study in PDF format Overview Canopus Networks is a cloud native network observability company specializing in extracting deep, real-time insights from high-speed networks. To address the growing demands of telecommunications and enterprise operators for visibility into user experience and application behavior, Canopus developed “SuperNetflow,” a powerful observability…
Jul 8, 2025
Case Study: Datadog Uses eBPF to Improve Network Observability Accuracy and Performance
Download this case study in PDF format Overview Datadog Cloud Network Monitoring (CNM) collects Layer 4 network data, which is then combined with other data streams during processing. This allows users to not only dive into their raw network telemetry but also to slice and dice the data using unconventional…