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How eBPF Empowers Developers to Observe inside the Linux Kernel in a Safe and Unintrusive Way
Daniel Finneran explores how eBPF has evolved far beyond its roots in packet filtering into a robust, safe way to extend the Linux kernel. He explains how the eBPF "verifier", the security guardrail, enables implementation of deep observability and networking without the risks of traditional kernel modules or the slow upstreaming process.
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The Future of Service Mesh with Jim Barton
In this podcast, Jim Barton explains some of the fundamentals of modern service meshes, and provides an overview of Istio Ambient Mesh and the benefits it will provide in the future.
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Frederic Branczyk on Continuous Profiling Leveraging eBPF
Wes Reisz and Frederic Branczyk discuss the origin story of Polar Signals, eBPF (the enabling technology used by Polar Signals), Parca (the open-source system they built to collect continuous profiling data), and more, including things like FrostDB and why profiling data complements what we already have with our current observability stacks.