The post below is an update on a research project sponsored by the eBPF Foundation. It is the first in a series of posts about this research. The post was…
The eBPF Foundation is committed to fostering innovation and expanding the boundaries of eBPF technology. In 2024, we granted $250,000 to five academic research projects aimed at improving eBPF’s performance,…
This article was originally posted at Bootlin, and is republished with permission. By Alexis Lothoré, Bootlin As part of a partnership with the eBPF Foundation, Bootlin engineers Bastien Curutchet and Alexis Lothoré are working with the…
Download this case study in PDF format Summary Meta, a global leader in technology and social networking, faced the challenge of providing comprehensive profiling data for its backend services without…
Download this case study in PDF format Overview Bytedance, a global technology company operating a wide range of content platforms around the world at massive scale, faced significant challenges in…
Download this case study in PDF format Overview Polar Signals, a company specializing in performance profiling and observability tools including Parca – which also happens to use eBPF but is…
Security, Academic Research, and Upstream Development Key Highlights The eBPF Foundation has spent 2024 securing, promoting, and advancing the eBPF ecosystem in many key areas, this blog highlights and celebrates…
Two research reports sponsored by the eBPF Foundation audit the security of eBPF and provide deployment guidance, along with inherent controls and recommendations SALT LAKE CITY – Cilium + eBPF…
Projects will advance eBPF’s open source technology by improving scalability, static analysis, verifier, virtual memory, and more SAN FRANCISCO – August 29, 2024 – The eBPF Foundation, which focuses on…
This is the first in a new series of spotlights on eBPF Foundation members. We kick off the series with a discussion with Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at…
At the recent Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM, and BPF Summit, Joe Stringer from Isovalent, also a member of the eBPF Steering Committee, shared updates and future plans for the eBPF…
The Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM and BPF Summit recently hosted a session by Andrii Nakryiko, a distinguished engineer at Meta and a member of the eBPF Steering Committee, titled "Evolution…
The recent Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM, and BPF Summit featured a session titled "BPF conformance - handling undefined opcodes," presented by Alan Jowett from Microsoft (video follows below). As a…
At the recent Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM and BPF Summit, KP Singh of Google, who is also a member of the eBPF Steering Committee, delivered a session titled "Next Steps…
In a recent session at the Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM, and BPF Summit, Alexei Starovoitov of Meta, and a member of the eBPF Steering Committee, shared his vision for the…
At the recent Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM, and BPF Summit, Alan Jowett from Microsoft, who also serves on the eBPF Steering Committee, presented an insightful session titled "BPF performance: comparison…
At the recent Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM, and BPF Summit, Alan Jowett from Microsoft, and a member of the eBPF Steering Committee, presented a discussion on improving LLVM for better…
At the recent Linux Storage, Filesystem, MM, and BPF Summit, Daniel Borkmann from Isovalent, who also serves on the eBPF Steering Committee, presented an insightful session titled "Revamping Global Socket…
On 16 March, the eBPF Foundation and Centre for Networked Intelligence organized the first eBPF Day, India at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, with support from Cisco CSR.…
eBPF Foundation recently released its first State of eBPF report which aims to inform technology decision-makers about the technology and some of its use cases. Bill Mulligan, Marketing Committee at…
eBPF is a technology that allows users to run custom programs inside the Linux kernel, which changes the behavior of the kernel and makes execution up to 10x faster(link is external) and…
Qualitative study from the eBPF Foundation and Linux Foundation Research covers the evolution of eBPF, what’s being built with it today, challenges, and where it is heading SAN FRANCISCO –…
Prepared by Joe Stringer & Bill Mulligan on behalf of the BSC This document is intended to help readers to understand the technical value provided to the eBPF community by…
The eBPF documentary premiered today at KubeCon North America. Sponsored by the eBPF Foundation, Intel, and Isovalent, "Unlocking the Kernel" explores the history of eBPF, including why and how it…
The eBPF Foundation, along with Intel and Isovalent, are sponsors of the upcoming eBPF documentary, Unlocking the Kernel. Produced by Speakeasy Films, this documentary explores the history of eBPF, including…
eBPF Foundation Mentorship Program The eBPF Foundation is funding mentoring programs run on the LFX Mentorship platform. The eBPF Foundation is a great place to spend time learning, coding, documenting,…
Spring is back in the Northern Hemisphere, and with it all kinds of features are blooming for eBPF. Kernel 5.12 is out, and version 5.13 is on track to bring…
In several parts of the globe, February is traditionally about love, and pancakes. eBPF sure received a lot of love over the last weeks! Blogging, conferencing, and kernel development have…
With the festive season, it would seem that eBPF blogging has cooled down a little, and we have fewer items to report this time. But eBPF is getting traction everywhere,…
Foreword Welcome to the second issue of the eBPF Updates! This time we have interesting resources about how to write eBPF programs with Zig, or with Rust, or on how to…
Foreword Curious people, eBPF aficionados, kernel hackers, welcome! The eBPF Updates aim to be a regular publication providing news on the latest resources and developments in the eBPF world. This…