{"id":278441,"date":"2026-06-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/how-ebpf-empowers-developers-to-observe-inside-the-linux-kernel-in-a-safe-and-unintrusive-way\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:40:09","slug":"how-ebpf-empowers-developers-to-observe-inside-the-linux-kernel-in-a-safe-and-unintrusive-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/how-ebpf-empowers-developers-to-observe-inside-the-linux-kernel-in-a-safe-and-unintrusive-way\/","title":{"rendered":"How eBPF Empowers Developers to Observe Inside the Linux Kernel in a Safe and Unintrusive Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

How eBPF Empowers Developers to Observe Inside the Linux Kernel in a Safe and Unintrusive Way<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.infoq.com\/podcasts\/empowers-developers-inside-linux-kernel\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-22 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.infoq.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Transcript<\/h2>\n

Olimpiu Pop<\/strong>: Hello everybody, I am Olimpiu Pop, an InfoQ editor. And I have in front of me, Dan Fineran. I will not try to pronounce his name because I probably will butcher it, so let\u2019s have Dan introduce himself. How the things started for our conversation, it was after QCon. Dan had a fabulous presentation, and a lot of people were just eyes on the slides, but we learned a lot because he had some code as well. But he was concerned, while chatting in the elevator, about how much of the gist of what eBPF actually has reached the audience. So then we said, let’s give it a try and give it another angle, me playing the role of the noob. I had exposure to eBPF previously, but it’s always good to hear more about it. But without further ado, Dan, please introduce yourself and teach me how to pronounce your last name so I can do better next time.<\/p>\n

Dan Fineran<\/strong>: It’s a funny surname. To a certain degree, many people do pronounce it in myriad ways, which is always fine. My name is Daniel or Dan Fineran. So it’s an Irish surname. Cinnamon, Sinneren, a lot of different mispronunciations, but Dan Fineran typically. So, a quick overview: I am part of the community team at Isovalent. And it is now Isovalent at Cisco. So, around 18 months ago, we joined the Cisco family. Isovalent is the company that effectively spearheaded the creation of the eBPF project and then built projects on top of eBPF, namely the Cilium and Tetragon projects, which are typically cloud-native in the cloud-native ecosystem.<\/p>\n

Decoding the Name: The Origins of eBPF [02:23]<\/h2>\n

Olimpiu Pop<\/strong>: So let’s start with the simple things. Well, if any of them are simple when we are discussing the Linux kernel. eBPF has a lengthy name that includes something with Berkeley. And what I remember from the other conversations I had with the guys from Isovalent in previous years is that it’s more or less a keyhole into the Linux kernel. And that says a lot, because we know the guys from Linux are, how…<\/p>\n

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