eBPF - Blog

TechnologyExternal27 Sep, 2022

Building an eBPF-Based Profiler

Learn how to build an eBPF profiler for both for both compiled and interpreted languages

TechnologyExternal27 Sep, 2022

Data-Centric Tracing

eBPF can facilitate observability of kernel function execution, showing arguments and return values in a similar way to that supported in debuggers

TechnologyExternal17 Sep, 2022

A Deep Dive into eBPF: Writing an Efficient DNS Monitoring

The code to get started with eBPF

TechnologyExternal14 Sep, 2022

Every Call You Make: Why Watching Traffic (and eBPF) Is the Future of Developer Tools

The “99% developers” need easier solutions for observability. Learn how eBPF may be the way to get there.

TechnologyExternal14 Sep, 2022

Linux kernel's eBPF feature put to unexpected new uses

The Register's coverage of Linux Plumber's Conference where new use cases like ghOSt and HID-BPF were presented

TechnologyExternal08 Sep, 2022

Porting an eBPF-based application to arm64: our experience with Inspektor Gadget

Inspektor Gadget is now available on arm64! It will enable you to debug your kubernetes cluster running on this architecture, whether it is a thousand nodes cluster hosted in the cloud or locally on your arm64-based laptop or SBC

TechnologyExternal08 Sep, 2022

Why You Should Pay Attention to eBPF

Redmonk gives the heads up that eBPF is a technology to watch. Expect more analysts to follow suit

TechnologyExternal25 Jul, 2022

Differentiate three types of eBPF redirections

There are three types of eBPF redirection fashions in Linux kernel that may confuse developers often: bpf_redirect_peer(), bpf_redirect_neighbor(), and bpf_redirect(). This post helps to clarify them by digging into the code in history order, and also discusses usages & related problems in real world.

TechnologyExternal18 Jul, 2022

A story about AF_XDP, network namespaces and a cookie

A crash in a development version of flowtrackd (the daemon that powers our Advanced TCP Protection) highlighted the fact that libxdp (and specifically the AF_XDP part) was not Linux network namespace aware. This blogpost describes the debugging journey to find the bug, as well as a fix.