eBPF - Blog

TechnologyExternal08 Jul, 2025

Testing eBPF Program Compatibility Across Kernels with LVH and GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions Meets Little VM Helper and eBPF

TechnologyExternal23 Jun, 2025

Breaking Boundaries: Implementing the Enigma Machine in eBPF

André Martins celebrates Alan Turing 113th posthumous birthday by implementing the Enigma machine in eBPF

TechnologyExternal22 Apr, 2025

Why Does My eBPF Program Work on One Kernel but Fail on Another?

Learn how to make eBPF programs portable across different Linux kernels using BPF CO-RE and BTF, and discover techniques for supporting systems without built-in BTF by embedding external BTF data.

TechnologyExternal27 Mar, 2025

What If CI/CD Pipelines Had Built-in Security and Observability with eBPF?

Learn how eBPF can add real-time security and observability to CI/CD pipelines like GitHub Actions, helping detect exploits and optimize workflows execution time.

TechnologyExternal16 Jan, 2025

Case Study: Polar Signals Uses eBPF to Monitor Internal Cross-Zone Network Traffic on Kubernetes, Reducing These Operating Costs by 50%

Polar Signals developed kubezonnet, an open source project designed to monitor and measure cross-zone network traffic in Kubernetes clusters. The solution leverages eBPF to trace network packets and aggregate traffic data.

TechnologyExternal04 Jan, 2025

Tracepoints, Kprobes, or Fprobes: Which One Should You Choose?

Tracing programs like kprobes, fprobes, and tracepoints are very popular, but their overlapping functionality can make choosing the right one confusing.

TechnologyExternal27 Oct, 2024

P99Conf: How eBPF Could Make Faster Database Systems

Learn about BPF-DB, an in-memory key-value data store that can be planted within the OS kernel itself via eBPF, thereby routing around the restrictions and limitations of an OS’s user space, or the space in memory where a program is typically run