Oct 15, 2026
eBPF Foundation Announces 2026 Community & Advocacy Fellowship Recipients
TL;DR The eBPF Foundation announced the recipients of its 2026 Community & Advocacy Fellowship, recognizing contributors expanding global access to eBPF through automated runtime security, hands-on operational debugging resources, and community leadership. The 2026 fellows are Dr. Constanze Roedig (Software Bill of Behavior runtime baselines for Cloud Native Computing Foundation…
Sep 16, 2026
How Google Uses eBPF to Tailor CPU Scheduling and Optimize Workload Performance
Download this case study in PDF version Overview Google faced significant infrastructure challenges due to the performance limitations of general-purpose kernel CPU schedulers, which could not optimize for the infrastructure’s highly specific application behaviors and hardware combinations. To resolve this, Google implemented application-tailored CPU scheduling policies using pluggable eBPF schedulers…
Sep 3, 2026
eBPF Foundation Awards $100,000 in Academic Research Grants to Advance eBPF Developer Tools and Security
Researchers at Virginia Tech and the University of British Columbia will develop open source approaches to improve eBPF diagnostics and secure virtual machine observability Summary The eBPF Foundation has awarded $100,000 in grants to researchers at Virginia Tech and the University of British Columbia. Two $50,000 grants will support research…
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…