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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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eBPF Foundation Announces Community & Advocacy Fellowship Program

The fellowship is a six-month grant for individuals who want to dedicate their time to growing and educating the eBPF community

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