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Cloudflare’s eBPF Replatforming Part 1: The eBPF Pivot – From Hardware Lock-in to Programmable Networking
Chronicling Cloudflare’s eight-year journey with eBPF, starting with the move from hardware to the eBPF ecosystem
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How LinkedIn Identified a Kernel Lock Contention Issue Causing Recurring System Freezes
When LinkedIn engineers encountered short-lived, recurring outages where the database powering their user feed became unavailable and then recovered without leaving helpful traces, they had to devise a novel approach to uncover the root cause using off-CPU profiling with eBPF.
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How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability
Responsible disclosure works, in-kernel visibility tooling pays off in moments exactly like this one, and bpf-lsm continues to be one of the most useful primitives we have for runtime kernel mitigation.
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The invisible engineering behind Lambda's network
How eBPF took Lambda from 125,000 iptables rules to 144 and scaled snapshot networks by 20x.
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How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety
Learn how Github uses eBPF to detect and prevent circular dependencies in its deployment tooling.
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How Nutanix AHV Uses eBPF for vNIC-IP Mapping
Nutanix AVH leverages eBPF and Ring Buffer for timely and accurate vNIC-to-IP association
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Hardening eBPF for runtime security: Lessons from Datadog Workload Protection
Why Datadog chose eBPF for Workload Protection and lessons learned from implementation
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Community Built! Results from eBPF Summit: Hackathon Edition 2025
Read about the winning projects of the hackathon and the new eBPF trends!
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The eBPF Foundation’s 2025 Year in Review
Funding everything from academic research to conferences to fellowships
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Scaling real-time file monitoring with eBPF: How we filtered billions of kernel events per minute
Building file integrity monitoring on top of eBPF at Datadog
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