Dec 4, 2025
ePass: Verifier-Cooperative Runtime Enforcement for eBPF
Contributed by Ryan Huang, University of Michigan. This work is supported by the eBPF Foundation Academic Research Grants. eBPF has grown into one of the most exciting technologies in modern systems, providing a safe and expressive way to dynamically extend the Linux kernel. It now powers observability, networking, tracing, profiling,…
Dec 3, 2025
New “State of eBPF” Report Explores How Modern Infrastructure Teams Are Building on Kernel-Level Programmability
TL;DR New eBPF Foundation research shows that eBPF has become the strategic platform of choice for infrastructure teams across networking, security, observability, FinOps, and AI/LLM workloads. The eBPF for the Infrastructure Platform report explains how organizations are replacing legacy agents and kernel modules with faster, safer, more programmable eBPF-based solutions,…
Nov 20, 2025
Case Study: Alibaba Cloud Leverages eBPF for Adaptive Layer 7 Load Balancing
Download this case study in PDF format Summary Alibaba Cloud is one of the largest public cloud providers, operating a globally distributed infrastructure for millions of tenants. As their Layer 7 (L7) load balancers scaled to process over 10 million requests per second across diverse workloads, traditional Linux I/O event…
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
Case Study: 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…